Date: 28/11/2002
Source: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government
Title: Makhaye: Response to Mtshali speech
SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, KWAZULU-NATAL MEC FOR HOUSING, RESPONDING TO SPEECH DELIVERED BY PREMIER LIONEL MTSHALI, 28 November 2002
Karl Marx opens his marvellous work, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" with the following words: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." This fact also applies to falsehoods and personages of mean.
In the Book of Revelations a story is told of "war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the devil; and the dragon fought and his angels. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! 'We kuwe mhlaba' for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." This was a tragedy. The tragedy has repeated itself as farce. Early in 1999 there was war in heaven, the National Government. And the great devil was cast out into the earth, KwaZulu Natal, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
As Premier Lionel Mtshali made his speech on Tuesday, these passages from the Holy Book flashed in my mind. Indeed, KwaZulu Natal is cursed and we shall be overcome by the blood of the Lamb. The Lamb in this case are our people united in their diversity for peace, democracy and development. Counted also among our people to save our province are all political parties, including the healthy forces within the IFP, the worker and the businessperson, the peasant and the intellectual, the believer and non-believer, men and women, black and white, young and old.
The speech of the Premier was unprovoked, irresponsible and extremely scarce on truth. Even a cheap gossiper peddling the untruth would know that floor-crossing was declared constitutional. What was at issue was the mechanism to effect floor-crossing, which will be corrected by amending the constitution. We have sufficient numbers.
The Premier spoke at length about the sanctity of multi-party democracy. Well, was there any multi-party democracy in the KwaZulu homeland under the IFP! Ask the people of Lamontville, KwaMashu, Umlazi, KwaMaKhutha, Esikhawini, Ngwelezane, Portshepstone, Trust Feed, Imbali, Clermont, Bhambayi and Inanda! Ask the students of Ongoye who dared to air their views. Ask the families of those young people who were massacred in Ulundi on the eve of the 1994 elections.
The Premier talked about the people having elected him into the premiership. He must be living prior to 1999. The reality is that in 1999 the electorate reduced the IFP's representation into this legislature from 41 to 34 while the ANC representation was increased from 26 to 32. Both the ANC and IFP are guaranteed 34 votes each in this legislature. The Premier's imaginary majority reminds me of Hitler's hallucinations. When the great generals of the Soviet Union were knocking at the doors of Berlin during Word War 2, Hitler was still issuing orders to armies long annihilated by the Red Army, armies that no longer existed. Hitler had lost touch with all reality.
Is this the case with our Premier? Has the Premier forgotten that he is the Premier thanks to the votes of 32 ANC MPLs, 3 NNP MPLs, 2 MF MPLs, 1 ACDP MPL and 1 UDM MPL? Can he really forget such generosity? Of course, the Democratic Party put up its own candidate for premiership.
The Premier wants to tell us that he is a man of principle and is dead against floor crossing. But he has accepted councillors from other parties who have crossed into the IFP of which he is the National Chairperson. When the Floor-crossing Act passes as it will soon pass, can the Chair of the IFP make a public statement and say the IFP will never accept MPs and MPLs crossing from other parties to it?
The Premier talks about ANC members in the Cabinet to toe the IFP line or reconsider their positions. We are in that Cabinet by right and not by goodwill of the IFP. The IFP National Cabinet members who are there per invitation of the ANC vigorously and publicly campaign against certain ANC government positions. The ANC has not yet told them to reconsider their positions in the ANC Cabinet.
Let us warn that whoever hopes to threaten and carry out violence against our people in order to rob our people the right to choose their public representatives free of any intimidation will curse the day he was born. South African democracy is ready to defend and extend its frontiers.
Issued by KwaZulu-Natal Department of Housing
28 November 2002
Source: SAPA
Source: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government
Title: Makhaye: Response to Mtshali speech
SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, KWAZULU-NATAL MEC FOR HOUSING, RESPONDING TO SPEECH DELIVERED BY PREMIER LIONEL MTSHALI, 28 November 2002
Karl Marx opens his marvellous work, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" with the following words: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." This fact also applies to falsehoods and personages of mean.
In the Book of Revelations a story is told of "war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the devil; and the dragon fought and his angels. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! 'We kuwe mhlaba' for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." This was a tragedy. The tragedy has repeated itself as farce. Early in 1999 there was war in heaven, the National Government. And the great devil was cast out into the earth, KwaZulu Natal, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
As Premier Lionel Mtshali made his speech on Tuesday, these passages from the Holy Book flashed in my mind. Indeed, KwaZulu Natal is cursed and we shall be overcome by the blood of the Lamb. The Lamb in this case are our people united in their diversity for peace, democracy and development. Counted also among our people to save our province are all political parties, including the healthy forces within the IFP, the worker and the businessperson, the peasant and the intellectual, the believer and non-believer, men and women, black and white, young and old.
The speech of the Premier was unprovoked, irresponsible and extremely scarce on truth. Even a cheap gossiper peddling the untruth would know that floor-crossing was declared constitutional. What was at issue was the mechanism to effect floor-crossing, which will be corrected by amending the constitution. We have sufficient numbers.
The Premier spoke at length about the sanctity of multi-party democracy. Well, was there any multi-party democracy in the KwaZulu homeland under the IFP! Ask the people of Lamontville, KwaMashu, Umlazi, KwaMaKhutha, Esikhawini, Ngwelezane, Portshepstone, Trust Feed, Imbali, Clermont, Bhambayi and Inanda! Ask the students of Ongoye who dared to air their views. Ask the families of those young people who were massacred in Ulundi on the eve of the 1994 elections.
The Premier talked about the people having elected him into the premiership. He must be living prior to 1999. The reality is that in 1999 the electorate reduced the IFP's representation into this legislature from 41 to 34 while the ANC representation was increased from 26 to 32. Both the ANC and IFP are guaranteed 34 votes each in this legislature. The Premier's imaginary majority reminds me of Hitler's hallucinations. When the great generals of the Soviet Union were knocking at the doors of Berlin during Word War 2, Hitler was still issuing orders to armies long annihilated by the Red Army, armies that no longer existed. Hitler had lost touch with all reality.
Is this the case with our Premier? Has the Premier forgotten that he is the Premier thanks to the votes of 32 ANC MPLs, 3 NNP MPLs, 2 MF MPLs, 1 ACDP MPL and 1 UDM MPL? Can he really forget such generosity? Of course, the Democratic Party put up its own candidate for premiership.
The Premier wants to tell us that he is a man of principle and is dead against floor crossing. But he has accepted councillors from other parties who have crossed into the IFP of which he is the National Chairperson. When the Floor-crossing Act passes as it will soon pass, can the Chair of the IFP make a public statement and say the IFP will never accept MPs and MPLs crossing from other parties to it?
The Premier talks about ANC members in the Cabinet to toe the IFP line or reconsider their positions. We are in that Cabinet by right and not by goodwill of the IFP. The IFP National Cabinet members who are there per invitation of the ANC vigorously and publicly campaign against certain ANC government positions. The ANC has not yet told them to reconsider their positions in the ANC Cabinet.
Let us warn that whoever hopes to threaten and carry out violence against our people in order to rob our people the right to choose their public representatives free of any intimidation will curse the day he was born. South African democracy is ready to defend and extend its frontiers.
Issued by KwaZulu-Natal Department of Housing
28 November 2002
Source: SAPA
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