City Press reports that a senior government official, who is also a high-ranking ANC leader, confirmed that the State Security Agency is increasingly busy with a detailed analysis and surveillance of the relationship between the DA and the Poms.
He said the ANC is not happy with the closeness between the two parties of late. Events that raised their suspicions are:
» A meeting between Western Cape Premier and DA leader Helen Zille and British government officials, including High Commissioner Nicola Brewer. The ANC says Zille allegedly asked for 10% of all investment in South Africa to come to the Western Cape;
» A visit by Zille and a tourism delegation from the province to London earlier where she told the SA Chamber of Commerce the ANC would split in the next seven years; and
» Former Zille adviser Ryan Coetzee’s appointment as adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
City Press quoted the high flying ANC official as saying: “There is something deeper than meets the eye and South African security has to analyse that,” the official said. Government is worried that “an aggressive onslaught” from Britain and other European countries would undermine South Africa. He feels the DA is using international relations to take over government after the 2019 or 2024 general elections.
The matter is high on the agenda of Thursday’s third International Solidarity Conference planned by the ANC where it would apparently be argued that the closeness between the British and the DA is similar to the British backing the MDC in Zimbabwe to overthrow the government of President Robert Mugabe.
Zille was laughing so hard she had difficulty to respond, saying it must be an early April Fool’s joke. “Is someone occupying a parallel universe somewhere? Or is this part of the ongoing ‘Zanufication’ of the ANC?”
