The African National Congress (ANC) needs to get back to the business of government, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday.
Writing in his weekly online newsletter, he said politicians might all be talking in hushed tones about competing centres of power, the Scorpions and the judicial process.
”But most South Africans, I believe, are fretting about rising food prices, high interest rates and [whether] the stadiums [will] be ready for 2010.
”The ruling party really needs to get back to the business of government whilst our well-designed and independent institutions, under our impeccable Constitution, do their business in upholding the rule of law.”
The IFP was confident ANC president Jacob Zuma would receive a fair trial on corruption charges because those institutions were strong and impartial.
”We are confident that, if there is an elaborate McCarthy-like political conspiracy, our institutions will expose it as such,” he said.
”In the meantime, let us pursue the constitutional directives to liberate our people from HIV/Aids, poverty, joblessness, criminal activities, poor education and preventable diseases,” Buthelezi said. — Sapa