Monye Collen 🇿🇦

If you can mute your feelings about Malema/EFF, Zuma/MK, ANC & all its leaders & zone in on the moral ethos and personal constitution of Floyd Shivambu then let's debate: Our identity, red lines, moral boundaries are not determined by who other people are or what they do. We are who we are and what we do, ALWAYS, regardless of what others do. We are our patterns of behaviour and the silent internal voice that makes us adopt those behaviours. Reminder: this is not a critique of Zuma, Malema, Ramaphosa, and their parties. It is about Floyd and the moral code that governs his impulses. He was the DP of the EFF for TEN years!, a party that he now calls a "cult." He said, "The EFF is the only defender of our constitution." When did it become a cult? Floyd graduated with 2 postgraduate degrees during that time. Nothing he learnt made him identify the "cult" in those many years? Instead, he was an active participant, torchbearer, AND tactician, fully embedded in the "cult." He swore, fought, screamed in defence of the 'cult." A cult doesn't exist with only a leader. It needs lieutenants & high command officers before you even get to members of the cult. You decide where Floyd was positioned. He now assumes a passive voice when talking about the EFF. That reflects a moral code. And then he joined MK and the man he spent 10 years exposing, challenging and litigating against as a memeber of the "cult." During the 2016 No Confidence Vote into Zuma's presidency, Floyd put him in the same category as "Post colonial disasters, imposters & thugs" who turned "Africa into a dark continent." This is a fundamental accusation! But he still went to join Zuma's party and claimed: "We were misled about Zuma." Who misled him? He takes no responsibility for his choices and cunningly adopts the Royal "We." This reflects a moral code. At Zuma's birthday celebrations he said Zuma was "the most knowledgeable political leader." 2 months later, Zuma is now "old & gullible?" Now you will say, "we can change our minds." Yes, when new facts present themselves. There are no new facts. The people he followed are still who they are. They are who they have ALWAYS been. He goes and stays and goes again because his moral code is contaminated. A 180°-degree turn on fundamental core issues is not merely "changing your mind" ESPECIALLY when you do so without owning up to your own actions. Instead, it is someone else's fault. Floyd doesn't merely change his opinions. We change opinions on a variety of things. But at play here is a man who blows with the wind. If we are to be generous, we could say he has poor judgement on SIGNIFICANT issues. Bad attribute for a leader! But if we are to be truthful, then it is all of the above AND a decomposed personal and moral constitution.