Congress of the People (COPE) leader, Mosiuoa Lekota, says South Africans must call for action against the revelations at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, by going to the polls to vote for change. Lekota was speaking at a community engagement at Tongaat north of Durban where only a handful of COPE supporters attended.
Former Bosasa executive, Angelo Agrizzi‘s, damning testimony revealed that several high ranking state officials had received bribes from the company. Lekota says the revelations have been shocking.
“Not in my wildest dream did I ever imagine that our country would be sitting with a disastrous situation we are now confronted with. And the more I think of it, the more I think I should have shouted even harder. Gone deeper into the countryside to say to our people we are actually at the end. Generations of our children I dare say are going to have to pay until they go into their graves.”
Meanwhile, Lekota defended the poor community turnout in Tongaat.
“You cannot judge us on the basis of today simply because the weather is coming out now all of a sudden. I’m not trying to suggest that we would have filled King Shaka stadium with numbers. Political outcomes are not determined by the sizes of political public meetings of so many people who would have been bored by food parcels and things like that.”
COPE is yet to announce where and when it will present its election manifesto.
