They say…the very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again…and each time, expecting a different result. If that’s true, then…what does that make the average ANC voter?
I think this cartoon by Dave Doubell says it best…don’t you?
Yip. Batsh*t-crazy, loopy-de-loop…insane!
You know what else is insane? The ANC, EFF and MK whining on and on and ON…like a stuck gangster-rap record, looping the same lie, over and over again. That lie being: “The DA is a racist, white-supremacist organisation…that wants to bring back slavery, colonisation, imperialism and apartheid.”
Yes…THAT lie.
ZILLE AWARDED WORLD’S BEST MAYOR (2008)
In early June, Democratic Alliance federal chairperson Helen Zille hinted that she might be submitting her name for the DA’s Johannesburg mayoral candidacy. On 13 June, she confirmed her application. (You probably never heard about that update because local media hardly covered it).
And some people are positively losing their s**t…at the prospect of Zille becoming mayor of her hometown, Johannesburg.
Sure, let’s NOT give the woman who won an international award in 2008 for being the BEST FKN MAYOR IN THE WORLD – of Cape Town – an opportunity to be mayor of Johannesburg. Sound rational and reasonable?
Then again, to some extent, I agree with the naysayers…albeit not for the same reasons. Far as I’m concerned, Helen Zille shouldn’t be wasting her time as mayor of Johannesburg. She’s got bigger national fish to fry.
NO ‘SAVIOUR’ CAN SAVE SA? WRONG!
Remember when Dr JJ Tabane once said: “South Africa must forget about the idea of some messiah coming to save us”? Well, what if I told you the doc, respectfully…is wrong.
What if I told you…that there is a messiah – of sorts – out there, waiting in the wings. A saviour who could lead and govern this country efficiently, effectively and successfully.
What if I told you…this candidate is intelligent, well-educated, ethical, capable, competent and fully qualified to lead our country out of Failed-State Central, off Banana Republic Boulevard…and onto Prosperity Super Highway.
What if I told you, this leader is someone…who could bring stability to the country and economy, obliterate poverty, crime and corruption, boost industry, jobs and service delivery, and all while keeping the lights on and water flowing.
What if I told you this person could lift us back up where we belong, to our rightful place as a key geopolitical player on the world stage – again? That they could , and propel SA into the Fourth Industrial Revolution – and a golden new age of plenty.
What if I told you…this candidate has solid character, steely resolve and iron-clad integrity…with the courage to stand up and call it as they see it and not back down. And that this person knows that what is right is not always popular…and what is popular is not always right.
What if I told you, she also has impeccable struggle credentials. For instance, back in the 70s, she blew the lid off the fact that the SAP murdered activist Steve Biko and tried to cover it up – an expose that almost got her killed.
Because…guts, baby. She has guts.
Yes, that person, that candidate leader, that “saviour” is out there…right now. All we have to do is vote for her.
Sound good?
Of course! You’d have to be retarded to turn that down. You’d have to be f***ed in the head not to want that for our country.
Yes, I’m talking about Helen Zille. For president of South Africa.
There’s just one problem: She’s white.
FORGET MAYOR, HELEN FOR PREZ IS A NO-BRAINER
Helen shouldn’t be slumming it, running for Johannesburg mayor. She should be running for president.
Yes, I’m saying Gogo Godzille could salvage this country, pull SA back from the brink of the abyss…and save us all.
And if you think I’m joking or exaggerating, let me be more specific.
Helen Zille could do a better job of running this country…than our past three presidents…combined. And she could do it…with one eye gouged out, one arm chopped off, while hopping around on one leg…and using only half her brain.
It’s not that she’s so great…which she is. It’s just that they’ve all turned out to be so fucking inept, incompetent and hopelessly corrupt, that she couldn’t possibly do worse. (But then…a retarded, blind, five-year old child couldn’t do any worse.) Thanks to them, Helen’s presidential work is cut out for her.
WHEN HELEN TRIED TO FIGHT GANG VIOLENCE – AND GOT BLOCKED
Hey, remember back in 2012…when Helen Zille called for the army to be deployed to the Cape Flats to combat the rampant scourge of gang violence? And then she called for it again later that year, during the violent Western Cape Winelands uprisings? And again, in 2013, during the resurgent gang violence?
And…what happened? She was slammed by – among others – then-police minister Nathi Mthethwa for daring to suggest such a radical and “racist” strategy, and the ANC shut her down.
Then, in 2018, when Helen wrote then-police minister Bheki Cele a 40-page letter urging him to deploy more police to the Western Cape to address a spike in violent crime, he too dismissed her.
And THEN…what happened?
Gang violence on the Flats got so bad, it drew international attention and condemnation, especially through several documentaries by, among others, the BBC and Al Jazeera. Then, and only then, were the ANC forced to deploy the army…and then pretended like it was their brilliant idea. (Not that the deployment was effective – gangster violence and crime on the Cape Flats is still at an all-time high.)
That whole saga was just a peek…at how far, strategically and politically, Zille was ahead of the government on that one.
SURVIVING SEVERAL ‘SCANDALS’ AND CRUCIFIXIONS
Have you counted how many public “scandals” and crucifixions Zille has weathered and survived so far?
Here are just a few…
Remember when, back in 2017, she stirred up a Twitter (now X) sh*tstorm and got publicly crucified for her tweets on…the pros and cons of colonialism?
Or, how about again, in 2020, when she was widely attacked for her so-called “incendiary” and “insensitive” tweets that credited De Klerk for “dismantling apartheid”?
Or the time she came out in defence of the DA and the Kiffness for drawing comparisons between Hitler and Malema, the Nazis and the EFF?
Man…did all those tweets and comments cause a BEEG brouhaha…a fiery furore across the land…and around the world.
However, in all that self-righteous, virtue-signalling, backlash noise – over those collective utterances by Zille – one important fact got overlooked:
It’s just…her…fkn…OPINION!
And, “enshrined” and “codified” in our fancy-schmancy “sophisticated” Constitution (as our politicians love to say – when it suits them) are certain non-negotiable, inalienable, human rights. Chief among them is the right to freedom of speech, expression and OPINION – including…UNPOPULAR opinion.
That means…you may not LIKE or AGREE with what Helen Zille says…but it’s her constitutional right to say it.
(EMBARRASSING and SAD that I even need to point that out.)
If you don’t get that, then…you do not understand, appreciate nor deserve…this “sophisticated” constitutional democracy…for which so many fought and died.
Zille eventually apologised for the some of the tweets, but…was she legally obliged to? Because, all she was basically saying, as I read it, is this: Let’s not throw the revolutionary baby out…with the colonial bathwater.
HELEN BOUNCES BACK – AS A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
And how did Zille respond to the backlash and personal attacks by all and sundry? By writing a “politically incorrect” best-selling book, that went to number one on Amazon. You may have heard of it? It’s called #StayWoke: Go Broke.
Who’s got the balls to write and publish a book with that title…at the height of the “woke” movement?
GODZILLE COULD BE OUR ‘IRON LADY’
Some journos and analysts have already drawn comparisons between Helen Zille and ex British PM Margaret Thatcher, calling Helen our would-be, could-be…Iron Lady.
I agree…she could be.
(Hopefully, though, unlike Thatcher, Zille won’t take us to war with Lesotho and the trade unions or something…)
Yes, I’ll put my neck on the chopping block, right now, and guarantee you that President Zille will not only propel this country into that over-hyped Fourth Industrial Revolution (that the ANC has no prayer of keeping up with), but also…
ZILLE COULD ‘MASAGA’ (MAKE SOUTH AFRICA GREAT AGAIN)
(Yeah, that’s right…I fkn said it; #MASAGA, baby!)
And if anybody could Make South Africa Great Again…Zille could.
I mean GREAT…like when the SA rand was more powerful than the US dollar and practically equal to the British pound.
GREAT… like when South African Airways was one of the marquee airlines in the world.
GREAT…like when Eskom was a leading powerhouse on the continent.
GREAT…like when SA had the most powerful army and economy in Africa.
GREAT…like when nationwide unemployment was at an all-time low.
GREAT…like when hardcore violent crime – especially against women and children – was a rarity.
GREAT…like when we were the breadbasket of the world – instead of the basket case that we are now.
IF ONLY HELEN WEREN’T WHITE – AND A WOMAN
Yip, Helen Zille could rule supreme.
If only she weren’t…white. And a woman.
And, as Political Insider, Mike Sham, said about Helen’s bid for mayor of Johannesburg: “She’s always been a divisive figure. Nobody likes a straight-talking woman in South Africa. We are NOT fond of that, especially one who is white. Regardless of the fact that she’s got a magnificent history in struggle politics.”
Tell me…is it even possible for a white man or woman to be elected into the highest office in this country anymore? A country that supposedly boasts the most sophisticated, non-racist, non-sexist, constitutional democracy in the world? Because, if that Chris Pappas saga back in 2023 is anything to go by, a white man cannot even run for premier in this country without violent backlash, let alone president.
If it is impossible for the most competent and qualified to lead this country, because they’re white…or Indian, or Coloured? Well, then…you can take that fancy-schmancy, sophisticated constitutional democracy…and wipe your S’African a*s with it. Because it’s not worth one darn Zimbabwean dollar.
So, what’s it going to be, S’Africa? Take a chance on new leadership blood with GogoZille, the world’s best mayor…as our “saviour” President?
Or, keep up the endless cycle of insanity…and keep hurtling down Banana-Republic Boulevard…all the way to Failed-State Central.
WHAT SAY YOU, SA? COULD PRESIDENT HELEN ZILLE SAVE OUR COUNTRY?
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