By: Clyde N.S Ramalaine
Helen Zille, the political chameleon and self-proclaimed rescuer of South African politics, is once again inserting herself to dominate the post-election scene with her baaskap coalition maneuvers and silly demands.
Zille’s Democratic Alliance is anything but democratic, with her always insisting on being the domineering patriachial-male partner in any and every coalition.
In this season Zille’s Alliance make wild demands for its 21% attained in the recent elections. She pretends South Africa cannot function or be constituted into a democratic government without her. Everyone knows that is a sophism, since ANC with recalled RamaFortyPercent can do a deal with either Zuma’s MK or Malema’s EFF and still will be a majority to lead at no expense to democracy.
Zille’s ill-fated “Moonshine Pact,” facilitated by the timid, broken-Cape-dialect-speaker Gumede, was a coalition dream backed by millions in “donations” that failed to take flight. This is hardly surprising given her track record. Remember how Zille’s alliance kissed UCT’s Mamphele Ramphele’s AGANG into political oblivion? Or how she turned her black protégée, Lindiwe Mazibuko, into a mere “tea girl” and foreign student, while sending the now one-seat BOSA’s Mmusi Maimane packing as a glorified garden boy?
Zille’s political engagements have left a trail of destruction. She roped in former PAC’s De Lille’s and mayoral-chained her GOOD party into BAD and irrelevance. She openly flirted with the ambitious but [dis]Organized labour leader Zwelinzima Vavi and attempted to court the one-man-band now wholly defunct Kota’COPE. The Shi [Shilowa] of ShiKota [Shilowa and Lekota the surrogates for Mbeki’s failed rebellion party] is long buried in court rulings and a forgotten politician enjoying the BEE millions of his better-half.
Zille wanted to have a “boere-sakkie” (traditional Afrikaans dance) natsoen with Groenewald’s nikseggende Vryheids Front, one is still looking for the ‘freedom’ and ‘front’ of this peeing in the wind party. She found out Groenewald like the AWB Terreblanche sported a few holes in his political onderbroek ‘underpants’ . Yes Helen who reduced Tony Leon to a second-class rated upstart sweet-politician by killing his party and turning it into her ‘Alliance’ .
Those in the know will tell you that Zille’s DA is nothing but the old National Party in disguise. It has a veneer of liberalism but at its core is deeply conservative that can’t escape its racist internal reality. Don’t be fooled by Steenhuizen the second coming of Marthinus van Schalkwyk aka Kortbroek he can say nothing without first consulting Zille.
Don’t forget how Zille insisted on having respected journalist Allistair Sparks speak at her finest hour in 2015, the night she was to be inducted into the pantheon of smart leaders. Do we still remember how Sparks, the so-called liberated mind, listed his top smart politicians, all of whom were white? This list dovetailed perfectly with the guest of honour—none other than Helen Zille. Sparks let slip his personal admiration for Hendrik Verwoerd, the face and heart of apartheid, who also featured on his list of smart leaders.
I captured this moment back then in the New Age piece entitled ‘DA undone by insistence on SABC coverage’ with the following words: “The stench from this pollution enveloped the room, settling on the evening gown of Helen Zille, for these were words to eternalize her. And didn’t it? Yet she is associated not with Mandela, not with Biko, but with Verwoerd and, by implication, Hitler.” No matter how embarrassed she was, Zille could not hide this because she insisted the SABC be present, and we all saw it.
Her series of political dalliances includes brief flings with “Black-Like-Who?” Herman Mashaba’s failed ActionSA and a turbulent weekend affair with Julius Malema’s stadium-obsessed but voter-trust-reduced EFF.
She even suggested clandestine meetings with the unorthodox, wildcat-in-tactics Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance in shady alleys and political brothels of Gqeberha and Cape Town, respectively. Maybe Gayton in one of his unplanned-off-the cuff and obdurate statements will soon come clean to admit the ‘alliance’ in Patriotic Alliance was ‘stolen’ from Zille’s Allliance. Is that why the PA was hard at work to steal power from the DA in the Western Cape?
Zille tried to dance with Zuma and found Nxamalala will kapzela but he laughs while he plays you. She came back singing of his charm but conceded you can’t outfox an old hand and the only politician in SA.
Now, in a move that has shocked only the ignorant, because I, as far back as 21 February 2021, predicted this union engineered by Stellenbosch and Brenthurst interests, Zille is eyeing a ‘white-wedding’ kamikaze Mandela-style with the ANC despite having lost she politically smooched and bedded whoever in the political landscape of SA. On. the other hand the ANC bride a hemorrhaging, weakened, and embarrassingly untrusted leadership of ‘RamaFortyPercent’.
The Masekela borrowed ‘Thuma Mina’ who will now not be sent but potentially recalled, the New Dawn that never arrived. Yes RamaFortyPercent the 1978 Urban Foundation Leaguer whom Clive Menell’s wife Irene Menell describes as ‘we adopted him ( RamaFortyPercent) as a charity gesture.’ The same one who Perishaw Camay to his death could not forgive for his selling out of CUSA. The one who must explain what happened to the file handed to him while at Shell House on what came to be known as the’ Lost Boys of Bird Island’. RamaFortyPercent the self-serving one who refused to attend Mandela, his apparent hero’s, inauguaration sitting dik- bek because he was not made Deputy President back then.
The one who has gone from ‘Ramaphoria’ to ‘Ramaphobia’ to ‘Ramaruin’, now eternalized in the ANC’s election record lows as ‘RamaFortyPercent.’ The same one Lekota says wrote a letter to the Apartheid special branch to complain that Lekota and others put communist thoughts in his mind. The Phala-Phala kingpin, the one who lied and said Eskom was sabotaged, the one who said the July 2022 unrest was because of Zulu Tribalism, the LonMin and Marikana Massacre ‘concomitant action’ advocate, and worldwide corrupt felon Glencore business partner. The same one who wanted to use state capture to make him king is today on the eve of being sent to watch his Ankole while contemplating repaying a kamikaze debt to a Sudanese guy who bought cattle.
This so-called Government of National Unity is nothing more than a charade, with ‘RamaphosaFortyPercent’ as the willing amoeba, the submissive partner, and Zille as the dominant male partner borrowed from patriarchy. RamaFortyPercent wants to lead still when we all know he remains the signpost of failed leadership, the nightmare of organisational crisis, and the epitome of distrust. The NEC owes to tell us why RamaFortyPercent must still occupy its number one spot. Dont be fooled by claims of national unity and stability, that is RamaFortyPercent obfuscation.
This bought and paid for ANC NEC, presiding over the party’s decline from 62% to 40%, is now embroiled in this political brothel where everything is for sale and has approved the White Wedding of Zille to her Bride RamaFortyPercent. It is a white-wedding with the ANC-NEC the official bridesmaid and Stellenbosch and Brenthurst the self appointed groomsmen.
Cadre Nomvula, don’t please don’t – beware of Zille’s deathly embrace. Her hug may seem welcoming, but her black- widow kiss is the kiss of political death. Hahaha.
