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From Business Day Letters, June 9th, 2005
=Letter in support of Deputy President Jacob Zuma.=

The multitude of media, legal, political and moral expert opinions about the future of Deputy President Jacob Zuma ignore the gallant victories over apartheid forces made under Zuma’s military and political leadership.

None of these self-proclaimed custodians of public opinion played an equivalently significant role in the destruction of the apartheid state.

Most of them were direct beneficiaries or stooges of the oppressive regime. Their current status is a result of their patriotic embrace by the national democratic struggle.

In their arrogance, they advise the people’s movement without even holding a membership card of — or at least participating in — any of the alliance structures.

The manipulation of public opinion is yet another strategic guise to weaken the democratic order from within.

Zuma is the pinnacle of alliance unity in action, and hence a threat to those who seek to divide the people’s movement.

We, the people of SA, shall stand by him, side by side, in defence of our freedom.


 * Thandazani Makhoba

Sydenham