Klerksdorp, 06 August, 2020 / 8:45 pm (ACI Africa).
A Catholic Bishop in South Africa has, in a Facebook post, decried looting of public resources in South Africa and abuse of office through “repressions” in neighboring Zimbabwe, cautioning that the situation is “becoming worse and worse.”
In the August 5 Facebook post seen by ACI Africa, Bishop Victor Phalana draws parallels between the conduct of the leadership of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) under President Cyril Ramaphosa, and that of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
“We cry (over) the looting in South Africa and repressions in Zimbabwe,” the Bishop has posted.
He adds referencing the immediate former President, Jacob Zuma who resigned amid corruption allegations in February 2018, “One day South Africans came together: Cívic Associations, Religious Groups, the youth, the unemployed, all races, etc; we wanted to end the reign of terror and the culture of corruption by the Zuma regime.”
Bishop Phalana further expresses his disappointment with ANC’s leadership that promised a new dawn in the country characterized by “immediate arrests and prosecutions” of corruption suspects saying, “None of that has happened, none of that is happening. It is becoming worse and worse.”