Emma Powell faces backlash after revealing hard truths about ANC rule in the US.
ANC brands truth as treason in targeting MP Emma Powell
Powell exposed SA’s global disgrace; ANC responds with surveillance
State security now silences dissent, not threats, under ANC rule
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By Elliot Koen
One of the most telling signs that a government has lost its legitimacy is when it begins to brand the truth as treason. This week, we witnessed precisely that, as South Africa’s ruling party, that tired, corrupted relic known as the African National Congress, decided that Emma Louise Powell, a sitting Member of Parliament, is now to be treated not as a legislator, but as an enemy of the state.
Her crime? Speaking the truth. In Washington. To people who matter. About what South Africa has become under ANC rule: a captured, compromised, disgusting morally bankrupt country masquerading as a constitutional democracy.
It is grotesque, but entirely predictable, that after Powell blew the lid off the fact that Mcebisi Jonas, President Ramaphosa’s envoy, was denied Diplomatic Visa entry to the United States, the ANC went into Soviet mode. They summoned the National Security Council. They invoked “classified reports.” They deployed a whisper campaign, dutifully echoed by media foot soldiers at the Sowetan, painting Powell as a rogue operative working against the national interest.
This is more than just cynical politics, it is authoritarianism in the ANC’s native tongue. We have come accustomed to this vile behaviour for decades now.
The leaked report accuses Powell of organising an “unauthorised trip” to the United States, as if elected Members of Parliament now need a hall pass from Luthuli House to represent the views of millions of South Africans abroad. It claims she spread “disinformation” about the government’s foreign policy, which, for the record, involves open alignment with Iran,
Russia, and the world’s most violent terrorist movements like the PFLP, PLO and Hamas, while prosecuting lawfare against democracies like Israel in the Hague.
This sort of alignment masquerading as “foreign policy” is quite simply diplomatic self immolation.
And it’s Powell who gets targeted? Coincidentally this report from the foot soldiers of Ramaphosa’s media lap dogs have stated that Deputy Minister Andrew Whitfield was fired by “Cupcake” because of this secret report, so secret the Sowetan has seen it. Give me a break.
