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Rasool's fate sealed in 2005 by his anti Mfeketo, anti Blackman Ngoro sentiments |
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This story merely serves to show that we at this site have always been correct in arguing about the ineffectiveness and double-faced-ness of Ebrahim Rasool's premiership.
From the time he paid journalists to undo now NEC member Nomaindia Mfeketo's image when she was mayor of Cape Town and the attacks on Blackman Ngoro for so-called anti-Coloured sentiments, he now finds himself unable to escape the consequences of the opportunism which has defined and characterized his approach to politics.
The fact that the ANC has decided to get rid of him as premier means not only that they think his pro-Mbeki's stance is the problem. That may just have been the last straw. The fact of the matter is that he has failed to deliver services to the people of the Western Cape.
He promised to get rid of much hated bucket toilets system in the Western Cape, but did he? No.
He also caused numerous problems which were taken advantage of by the opposition Democratic Alliance and such a leader is not going to assist any political organization in its designs.
Rasool's attempts to save himself from being ousted as premier in 2005 and his sour grapes attitude after having been replaced by James Ngculu as chairperson of the Western Cape did not go unnoticed.
The same people he sought to castigated and paid journalists to undo their political images, Nomaindia Mfeketo, Skwatcha,, and Ngculu now decide his fate. How ironic.
He went out of his way selling propaganda to Cape Argus journalists, Ashley Smith, Joseph Aranes and any Cape journalist who was prepared to produce good copy for his or her organization.
In the end the copy produced by journalists he paid for this failed to help him and in fact was the result of his undoing.
The division between coloureds and blacks in the Western Cape was started by his attitude to the so-called Africanist group to which Ngculu, Nomaindia Mfeketo and Skwatcha were placed, after failing to retain the chairmanship of the Western Cape back in 2005.
Below we show readers some of our articles written in 2005 which defined the problem as it had been created by circumstances which dated back to Rasool's loss of the chairmanship of the ANC Western Cape.
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Sunday, 13 July, 2008
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