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Well done Mcebisi Skwatsha for at last telling the truth about Ebrahim Rasool and his role in the 2006 local government elections |
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Afro Rights Media Assocuiates salutes new ANC Western Cape chairperson Mcebisi Skwatsha for finally lifting the lid on the role played by Ebrahim Rasool when Cape Town fell to the Democratic Alliance in 2006.
Rasool used the Independent Newspapers's Chris Whitfield, Ashley Smith, now a Democratic Party functionary, and Joseph Aranes, one time political editor of the Cape Argus to do run his dirty media campaign against fellow ANC members.
Ebrahim Rasool was very effective in using these three members of staff of the so-called Independent Newspapers in running a campaign against the ANC Western Cape.
It has long been public knowledge that Rasool abused public funds and paid more than R100 000 each to members of a company owned and run by Ashley Smith and to which Joseph Aranes was aligned.
This website produced articles which informed the public about that. However being only a small online voice, our voice was drowned in the media cacophony created by the Independent Newspapers.
Whitfield was a very effective tool of the Democratic Alliance but he couldn't have run the campaign without Rasool for whom at that time any Coloured candidate was a good candidate.
On the other hand Ashley Smith, enjoying the monies Rasool paid him which he used to buy drugs or drank together with Joseph Aranes on St Georges Mall, went all out to run a campaign using the Independent Newspapers, to present Black leaders as inept.
"Africanists" who were undeserving and were pushing out "good Coloureds" from political positions.
What was most incredible were charges which Ashley Smith, a well-known Cape Town drunk made about this writer holding a job in the city.
"You took my job" he charged xenophobically.
How could I? I was invited from Johannesburg to come and take the job. But the Coloureds on the Independent Newspapers, acting as willing ideological tools of the Rasool faction went on and on to destabilise the City for both their own selfish ends and to meet the Rasool faction expectation.
Now at last a senior official of the ANC had had the guts to come out and spill the beans on what actually happened.
A number of articles on this website represented the role which Rasool played. This role included dividing the ANC councillors in the City and forming factions which undermined the governance of Nomaindia Mfeketo.
Att all times Aranes and Smith went about their task including feeding false information to different media, that Ngoro was Mfeketo's lover.
They even fed this information to Kent Morkel, now an ANC member of parliament but then a head of the Democratic Alliance Western Cape.
Kent Morkel informed me,, and he must also have now informed Mcebisi Skatsha of what really happened then before the Rasool staged managed show to hand the city to the Demmocratic Alliance.
What this writer is haoppy about is the fact that Kent Morkel has at least been useful in assisiting with deeper knowledge of the shenanigans Rasool was up to in his bid to rid the Western Cape of "Africanists".
Skwatsha told the ANC Western Cape meeting which elected him chairperson, "It was clear that the greatest threat to the ANC continuing to rule the city of Cape Town was the anti-ANC campaign conceived and financed by members deployed to the provincial government"
It is only thankful that Ashley Smith now working for the DA is not there to promote a racist message. I also undertand Joseph Aranes had his wings clipped a long time ago.
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Sunday, 28 September, 2008
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