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Mncedisi Botha
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Open letter to the Public Protector 19 January 2017, 14:32
Dear Madam, Are you captured?
This question bothers me, as it should any concerned citizen of what used to be regarded as a free state, and a member of its sovereign body.
It is the celestial voice, which is driven by a sense of duty imposed on me and everyone by our model constitution, and refuses to speak in my heart, any longer.
Our constitution founded our civil society which in 1994, and appeals to our higher –rational, moral, and altruistic self – to guard against collapsing to our lower – aggressive or impulsive – self.
This is tricky because resort to the latter comes natural to any uncultured society like ours, which is still struggling to extricate itself from its racial and tribal past.
Any one ruler, succumbing to his natural instinct, and the charisma of power, can abandon this most pressing and indispensable duty, and subject the civil society to his whims.
A tyrant needs only to invoke these characteristics to lure us back to the “good old days”
I ask this because, at a time when all our attention was concentrated on the state of capture report, you stepped into the office and made your mark with actions and utterings that diverted our attention from this question.
Coincided with a blitz of denials, threats, court interdicts, by those implicated, it failed to address this important question directly- further increasing our worst fears.
A concerted effort to wipe away the term “state capture” from our minds, was made by developing a parallel and influential (state-sponsored) conduit.
Combined with a display of a big-headed and arrogant benevolence, this has depreciated our state of slavery like food does to a shacked dog.
I am also concerned about your prioritisation of Ciex report, prepared by former British spy Michael Oatley.
I ask myself why would loans given by the Reserve Bank, to Bankorp, Sanlam, Rembrandt, R5.5-billion to Aerospatiale/DaimlerChrysler, be a concern of a Public Protector.
Public economy, is rightly distinguished from private economy, and, the Public Protector’s task is to protect the public from state abuse, and leave the private economy to the prudence of its willing participants.
Surely, considerations of the repayment precede any rescue scheme, and consequences of collapse form part of the agreement between those involved?
As the rescuer was the state in this case, it is the taxpayer who must bear the consequences – by paying his dues.
In the case of failure, there are enough competent organs of state to deal with such.
The million-dollar question is; who benefits if the state is captured?
Our conqueror must reveal his true identity to the vanquished, and the treacherous cronies must display their ill-gotten gains, in the end
They must gain the public approval – who must contribute (by force of their laws) to the public fisc, to sustain them in power, or to earn them a segment of legitimacy for their plunder.
He must have the guts to confirm our fears, and show his apparent interest, of which he subsequently tricks us — his creatures
The institutions charged with the duty to lay bare his interests, must fulfil it without favour.
I trust that this appeals to your sense of duty to our constitution, which you pledged to observe.
Yours truly,
Mncedisi Botha
— MyNews24
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