The Sunday Times last weekend quoted a secret report that Mr. Mbeki accepted 30 million rands (US$4 million at current rates) from a Germany arms company and gave 2 million rands (US$280,000) to Zuma and the rest to the ANC.
Mr. Mbeki's office has dismissed the report as nonsense.
“The truth will be revealed,” Mr. Zuma said, to chants of “30 million! 30 million!” from the crowd. He later launched into the anti-apartheid song that has become his trademark — “Bring Me My Machine Gun” — and the crowd sang along.
“Our president is the target of a political conspiracy and we are convinced that the conspiracy is led by the state president (Mbeki),” the head of the influential ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, told the rally.
Accompanied by loud cheers, Mr. Malema warned the country's judges to keep their hands off Mr. Zuma and demanded that Mr. Mbeki stand down immediately and let Mr. Zuma take over.
“If you touch the old man, you must touch us first. Nobody will arrest Zuma as long as we are alive,” Malema said. “Before you get to him you must kill the youth of this country. We are prepared to die for Zuma.”
(Taken from the globeandmail.com, August 6, 2008)
It's after reading an article like this that one can't help but wonder if these new "leaders" have forgotten all about Madiba's (Nelson Mandela's) morals and principles when running a country. The ANC is no longer proving itself to be a reliable party...in fact, it is daring to lower its standards to the ruling parties of the apartheid days: days full of illegitimacy, ignorance and scandal. Sadly all my eyes are seeing these days is a feirce sprial downwards from a country post 1994 that once proved so much potential and harmony, a country that proved to the world peace can come about through negotiations and compromise and most importantly HONESTY.
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