And too busy to notice the
weeds growing rapidly in his and his comrades’ private
rose gardens.
Then Jimmy Manyi made some irresponsible
statements about coloured people in the Western Cape, and
for some obscure reason, Trevor decided to attack
him by writing an open letter, supposedly in defence
of coloureds in the Western Cape.
Paul Ngobeni, currently employed as a special
advisor to the South African Minister of Defence and Veteran
Affairs, then attacked
Trevor in a very wordy response.
You may be interested to know that our special
advisor to the minister of defence et al, and also part
of a task team advising the African National Congress on
constitutional law matters, went to the US on a scholarship
in 1982.
He graduated with the equivalent of an LLB, and in 1989
he was admitted to practice law in the State of Connecticut
and to the State of Massachusetts in 1990.
By 2005, an application for his interim
suspension was filed by the Connecticut Office of the Chief
Disciplinary Counsel on the grounds that he "posed
a substantial threat of irreparable harm to his clients
or to prospective clients.’
On January 20, 2006, bar counsel filed a
petition in Massachusetts for reciprocal discipline based
on the interim suspension order entered in Connecticut.
On March 16, 2006, the court issued an order of immediate
temporary suspension, after Ngobeni had failed to respond.
In the presentment, disciplinary counsel alleged seventeen
counts of misconduct involving sixteen separate clients.
It included allegations that the respondent took fees without
providing services, was incompetent, lacked diligence, failed
to communicate with clients, engaged in misrepresentation
and deceit, failed to explain an overdraft in his clients'
funds account, failed to safeguard clients' funds, and failed
to respond to requests for information from the Connecticut
bar discipline authorities.
In 2007, Ngobeni skipped bail and returned
to South Africa.
The rest is history.
But, what do you expect from the ANC?
With just over 500 people in positions of power:
* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2
businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
373 in total, or approximately 70% of our
parliament.
And then, Helen Zille of course sees Trevor’s
letter as an opportunity
to further enhance her own rose garden.
With all the opportunists in power still
thinking and speaking in terms of coloured, black, white
and Indian, what chance do we have at building a free and
equal nation?
Most of them claim to have been freedom
fighters.
They fought for the freedom to enrich themselves.
None of them were equality fighters.
They don’t give two hoots about the rest of the nation.
Power to the people! And the money to the
leaders!
