The onslaught by the White Inc on the President’s nomination of Mogoeng J for the position of Chief Justice is far bigger than the supposed inexperience and insinuated homophobia of the judge. It is even bigger than the President himself. In the past two years since Jacob Zuma became President the White Inc has executed a carefully planned and measured campaign to discredit, ridicule and embarrass him. Jacob Zuma himself has made their job quite easy at times for some of his actions and decisions. While they are within their rights not to like him or even not want him as President but they must keep in mind that Zuma did not vote himself into that office, the people did. It’s the same people that they want to vote parties and candidates of their own choice. It is rather stupid then they insult the very same people and then wonder why they are simply not getting the votes.
In their campaign to undermine Zuma they trample on and abuse anyone who will give them a shot at Zuma. Last week it was Ngcobo CJ and this week it’s Mogoeng J. In their quest, they do not care that lives and reputations are destroyed. The silence after Zuma’s nomination of Mogoeng J was deafening as they flooded the Internet and archives to find, not why this person could be Chief Justice but why he could not be. Why? Because Zuma made the decision! Judge Mogoeng’s reputation is now being shreded into pieces and ridiculous assertions being made about his abilities and experience while overlooking the facts. The fact is that there is no prerequisite on experience on the appointment of Chief Justice. The fact is that Mogoeng J has been on the bench since 1997, only two judges currently serving the constitution court have been on the bench longer. Moseneke DCJ who Zuma has been accused of overlooking, only rose to the bench in 2001 and is effectively a junior to Mogoeng J in judicial experience. No other Chief Justice had had the experience of having been a President of of a division of a High Court before like Mogoeng J and this brings administrative experience. These are the facts.
In their quest they even go as far as suggesting who should have been nominated. Ridiculous, I say. The constitution is clear on the process of appointing a Chief Justice and now that the process has been followed they find something else that’s wrong. Now there are suggestions that the process, enshrined in the constitution they always loudly seek to protect, is not transparent and concentrate too much power in the hands of one person. This only means that he White Inc, in a constitutional democracy, wants to change rules of the game whenever they don’t get their way or powerbis in the hands of those they abhor.
Indeed Zuma’s leadership abilities has left a lot of question marks but this does not mean the constitutional authority of the office he holds must be ridiculed and undermined. He indeed has been caught in one too many a gaffe but he is still an elected president of the country elected by a clear majority which needs to be respected. What the White Inc should be doing is going to the voters and pointing out Zuma’s and the ANC’s shortcomings without disrespecting and ridiculing him. Since the majority of voters are African, they need to understand how Africans think, what they think about and what matters to them. They need to study how the ANC manages to keep voters election after election, screw up after screw up. They need to understand that respect means a lot Africans. This destruction of innocent people’s lives in the pursuit of the downfall of one man must simply stop. This carnage must simply stop.
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