MEDIA STATEMENT
BY THE
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY
It's Time To Vote Flawed Leaders Out Of Power
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13 April 2009 Speaking on the campaign trail in Harrismith today IFP President Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has decried flawed politicians who revel in rhetoric but lack the honesty and courage to take on South Africa's challenges.
"We need a leadership that is honest and courageous and has the integrity to speak with one tongue, even when the message is difficult," said the Prince, referring to the ANC's denialism when it comes to HIV/Aids or crime.
Prince Buthelezi drew a stark contrast between the ANC and the IFP, which pioneered the rollout of anti-retrovirals in KwaZulu Natal in 2003. "The IFP is honest enough to say that the HIV/Aids crisis is so bad even today that the government needs to roll out anti-retrovirals across the country," he said.
Touching on the controversial decision by the NPA not to charge ANC President Jacob Zuma, Prince Buthelezi said South Africa's tough times came to a head last week. "It was clearly a political solution to a legal problem; a truly tragic conflict of loyalty. It will be a long time before we will know how the extent to which this decision will impact upon our judiciary and democracy," he said.
Prince Buthelezi has summed the ANC's time in power as a decade and a half of incomplete or broken promises. "It is time for politicians to stop the high flying rhetoric and to call a spade a spade. It is time to get back to basics. If South Africa keeps electing a leadership that is fundamentally flawed, it will keep getting a fundamentally flawed leadership. It is time to do things differently," said Prince Buthelezi.
The IFP's focus, Prince Buthelezi stressed, was on action, not words. "We need to revolutionise our justice system. We need to implement a basic income grant. We need to leap forward in our development and welcome foreign investment. We need to find practical, government assisted solutions to the problem of food security. We need better health care and better education and better policing," he said.
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