WITH the Machine Gun Man fast running out of time to find a replacement for the outgoing Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, Guluva would like to add his two cents' worth and humbly urge the president not to look beyond the man who put his hand up about three years.
He is a non-partisan man of honour who is driven by the desire to protect the Constitution - the supreme law of the land - and serve Mzansi's people with dignity, irrespective of their political allegiance.
This honourable man demonstrated his non-partisanship and passion to serve the Constitution when he famously said in January 2008: "I have another 10 to 12 years on the Bench and I want to use my energy to help create an equal society.
"It's not what the ANC wants or what the delegates [to the party's 2007 Polokwane national conference] want; it is about what is good for our people."
You can't find a more suitable and honourable candidate than that.
This man, who wants to do what is good for the country, goes by the name of Dikgang Moseneke, the deputy chief justice, nogal.
Where's the real Oom Gwede?
Another honourable man who Guluva knows is Oom Gwede, the man who pulls the strings at the Revolutionary House in downturn Jozi.
Despite being surrounded by bling and the sheer opulence that his comrades swim in, Oom Gwede remains resolutely down-to-earth.
He lives in a modest Boksburg area, while his comrades have addresses in plush suburbs such as Waterkloof, Sandton, Bryanston and Northcliff. He abhors and detests corruption; that's why he even penned a damning, no-holds-barred report tabled at Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's recent lekgotla in which he called on the party to send a strong message that the organisation isintolerant of graft.
"One issue that constantly cropped up in the elections research, even among our staunchest supporters, is that the ANC is soft on corruption and looks after its own," he was quoted as saying.
That was two weeks ago, ahead of the lekgotla.
At the weekend, when asked to comment on whether Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's ethics committee would investigate Juju's questionable wealth following allegations that the kindergarten prefect was using a "secret" trust account to fund his lavish lifestyle, Oom Gwede un-characteristically bellowed: "I don't think people should stand on top of mountains when allegations are made and instruct the ANC what to do. We are not going to get into the space where everybody howls..."
Phew! Will the real Oom Gwede, who hates corrupt practices, please stand up?
The day the music stopped
Contrary to established tradition in the tripartite alliance, members of the South African Communist Party did not break into song and dance when the Machine Gun Man approached the stage to address the crowd at the party's 90th anniversary at Clermont in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend.
This was a repeat of what happened or did not happen at the Congress of South African Trade Unions' central committee meeting in Midrand, Gauteng, a few weeks earlier.
Guluva now wonders whether this is the beginning of the end of the "song-and-dance brigade", as Moeletsi Mbeki calls it.
Email Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Right man for Chief Justice
WITH the Machine Gun Man fast running out of time to find a replacement for the outgoing Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, Guluva would like to add his two cents' worth and humbly urge the president not to look beyond the man who put his hand up about three years.
He is a non-partisan man of honour who is driven by the desire to protect the Constitution - the supreme law of the land - and serve Mzansi's people with dignity, irrespective of their political allegiance.
This honourable man demonstrated his non-partisanship and passion to serve the Constitution when he famously said in January 2008: "I have another 10 to 12 years on the Bench and I want to use my energy to help create an equal society.
"It's not what the ANC wants or what the delegates [to the party's 2007 Polokwane national conference] want; it is about what is good for our people."
You can't find a more suitable and honourable candidate than that.
This man, who wants to do what is good for the country, goes by the name of Dikgang Moseneke, the deputy chief justice, nogal.
Where's the real Oom Gwede?
Another honourable man who Guluva knows is Oom Gwede, the man who pulls the strings at the Revolutionary House in downturn Jozi.
Despite being surrounded by bling and the sheer opulence that his comrades swim in, Oom Gwede remains resolutely down-to-earth.
He lives in a modest Boksburg area, while his comrades have addresses in plush suburbs such as Waterkloof, Sandton, Bryanston and Northcliff. He abhors and detests corruption; that's why he even penned a damning, no-holds-barred report tabled at Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's recent lekgotla in which he called on the party to send a strong message that the organisation isintolerant of graft.
"One issue that constantly cropped up in the elections research, even among our staunchest supporters, is that the ANC is soft on corruption and looks after its own," he was quoted as saying.
That was two weeks ago, ahead of the lekgotla.
At the weekend, when asked to comment on whether Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's ethics committee would investigate Juju's questionable wealth following allegations that the kindergarten prefect was using a "secret" trust account to fund his lavish lifestyle, Oom Gwede un-characteristically bellowed: "I don't think people should stand on top of mountains when allegations are made and instruct the ANC what to do. We are not going to get into the space where everybody howls..."
Phew! Will the real Oom Gwede, who hates corrupt practices, please stand up?
The day the music stopped
Contrary to established tradition in the tripartite alliance, members of the South African Communist Party did not break into song and dance when the Machine Gun Man approached the stage to address the crowd at the party's 90th anniversary at Clermont in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend.
This was a repeat of what happened or did not happen at the Congress of South African Trade Unions' central committee meeting in Midrand, Gauteng, a few weeks earlier.
Guluva now wonders whether this is the beginning of the end of the "song-and-dance brigade", as Moeletsi Mbeki calls it.
Email Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com
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