Retired Constitutional Court judge, Zac Yacoob, said the “balance of forces within the ANC” favoured corruption.
Addressing a SAVE SA rally at Dan Qeqe Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Freedom Day, Yacoob said that this was leading to the “killing of the nation” which he said was “high treason”.
Yacoob told a few hundred people that corruption was a “cancer” that was killing the country.
“To that extent the balance of forces in the ANC causes that cancer in the nation, leads to the killing of the nation and the killing of the nation is nothing but high treason,” Yacoob said.
The former judge and ANC member said he wanted government to respond and “say why their conduct is not high treason at all under any circumstances.”
“Our Constitution requires adherence to the rule of law. One of the things that many representatives of this government have done is that they have manipulated the law to take advantage of positions,” he said.
“We must use the law for the opposite purpose, so the rule of law does not go around being used as a tool. It is not there to protect corrupt people. Yet, we have a scenario in this country where the rule of law and the law is being used by corrupt and dishonest people to do whatever they want to do and this has to stop.”
“For me the option is a strong civil society. I would not say yet that it is the end of the ANC. What I can say certainly is that if the ANC carries on like this between now and 2019 it will absolutely be the end of the ANC.”
“There are some good forces within the ANC. I want to say to them that they must think carefully and act now because if you don’t act, you are going to become more and more complicit and be responsible for the death of your organisation and the death of your country,” he warned.
