Comrade President Zuma I am not a disgruntled member of the ANC, just angry. I am angry because you sent Jessie and the other President to school but not Malema. I am angry that no one has as yet visited me or given me any answers to where I will find the real ANC, so I hope that you wouldn’t mind if I write to you. I promise I will not write to Thabo, he will not take kindly to that and I may end up with Essop at my door.
I am also angry comrade President that your Minister of Education has banned the works of two performance artists. The good minister is not strong on freedom and democracy let alone freedom of expression. She reminds me of the old Nat cabinet ministers, sorry the white minority racists’ government. Don’t get me wrong – I also find these guys poor exhibitionists. All they are doing like most for our artists is just mimicking Paris and London. But to ban them in this day and age is not on. Does the good minister’s action not remind you of the wardens and censors on the Robben Island?
The Deputy Director-General in the Department of Education (DOE) argued that the art teachers are free to use the work of the artists in the classroom but they must first get the permission of all the parents. Now that is going where even the Nats never ventured. She sounds like our millionaire friend, your old mate from the Mbeki NEC, Smuts.
Please can you deal with this issue, I know you are opposed to censorship. Tell the folks in the DOE do get a life. The kids can download more dangerous nonsense like, for example, Blade’s speeches. If the Minister does not listen, you could deal with her at the list conference or better still why not redeploy her to the Dullah Omar Region. Let her do some leg work and get those comrades back into the movement.
I do have a few more issues about education, health, crime, GEAR, and so on but I will discuss this with you when you and the Terrors decide to visit me. I promise that I will serve you that vile booze that comrades in the Cape ANC drink. I am sure I will get in trouble with the wife, but since you have freed us from the heavy hand of Mbeki and restored democracy I feel free to make my concerns know. I shouldn’t have anything to worry about right?
But let’s leave what we do with the good Minister in charge of the DOE for the ANC list conference. I just hope that it all goes well. I did hear a rumor that some people would like to use it to raise awkward questions from the floor. I learnt from the Sunday Times that our comrade Mbulelo, who was last seen escaping from the troublesome Cape minus his manhood, is also hinting that there are some dark forces in the ANC who are going to remain in the movement – sorry party – and will work to undermine the movement – sorry party – from within.
Now comrade President if you do visit me I could tell you how to deal with the counter revolutionaries. From what I hear many of the counter revolutionaries are our public representatives in parliament who diddled the books. This act of subversion and counter revolution behavior was labeled by the right wing counter-revolutionary white controlled unreconstructed press as Travelgate. You should ask comrade Baleka for their names. You cannot trust anyone anymore. So lets us be vigilant and make sure that they don’t attend the list conference.
I see that your friend and brother swears that he never conspired against you. I know the bugger will say that he did not conspire against Mandela and did not have a hand in engineering Mandela’s humiliation in the NEC. Comrade President, I hope that you were not in any way party to humiliating our former president. I know you are a fearless warrior not afraid of taking anyone on for a good stick fight.
Comrade President I am sure you must be feeling sorry for that old cigar smoking, wine drinking, former Gauteng Premier. It seems that he visited his village and a comrade and son of the soil asked him why he was there when he had not done anything for his village.
Now that son of the soil has the right political attitude. You should send our head of elections to recruit this guy. I sure he will win the chief and his subjects for the National Democratic Revolution. I will bet my government pension that if you were to go to your home village and tell them why you went to Washington no one would question your commitment to the village and the poor.
Comrade President I hope that you are not following in Thabo’s footsteps – every time he had a bee in his bonnet he ran to Washington. You should send Blade in your place; he has a great deal of time on his hands since leaving the IFP. Please stay at home.
One more thing did you speak to the Minister of Arts and Culture about his spokesperson, you know the guy who has a mouth bigger than Terror’s.
Yours,
Omar Badsha.
P.S.
I cannot seem to find the real ANC in the Western Cape.
October 19, 2008
Democracy, The ANC debate