ConCour’s judgement on secret ballot pleases the ANC

There is a verbatim reflections and statements that second the reality of the decision undertaken by the United Democratic Movement (UDM) in taking the Motion of no confidence against the President of the Republic of South Africa to constitutional court so as to request that the process should be conducted through a secret ballot.

It is very explicit that the UDM came a realisation that the National Assembly Speaker, Baleka Mbete already failed to make a legitimate ruling in several occasions, in many cases that the speaker presided over to the cases that involved the president, such cases consequently amount to being silenced by the parliament under her supervision. 

The notion of secret ballot tabled by the UDM at first in parliament where the National Assembly Speaker was anticipated to make a legitimate and unbiased ruling that would favour the interest of the people of South Africa and also in respect and defends of the constitution. During the first ruling of this case, Baleka Mbete claimed to have no power to make parliamentary judgement on whether the motion of no confidence in the president could be conducted through a secret ballot or not. Since there are other process and method that could be utilised which include the open ballot system.

 The sadness reality in this matter is that parliamentary speaker seems to be scared and this followed by her words on the 06 April 2017 “I have no power to authorise a vote by a secret ballot against the president.” Although her statement may sound as if she’s not against the notion of secret ballot as stipulated but I am unashamedly persuaded by her past ruling of the cases that she knew exactly that a decision and power to grant a secret ballot to remove the president in the motion of no confidence lies upon her as the parliament speaker.

Now almost majority of South Africans  had been waiting for concourt to pass constitutional judgment that should have been passed by the Parliamentary speaker, the decision made by chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng today, 22 June 2017,  to grant a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against the president has been remitted to Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete. This judgment definitely challenges the Parliamentary Speaker to stand towards adhering to the parliamentary principles in making sure that the request of the UDM is legitimised. To efficiently looking to the position held by Baleka Mbete in the ANC and also being one of the recommended hearsay candidate for 2019 presidential elections. 

This could somehow prompt Baleka Mbete to compromise the sincerity by not grating secret ballot system in the motion of no confidence against the president. To widely my politically point of view on this matter,  the Speak won’t consider secret ballot method or if she does, that means she would be prepared to be degraded in the ANC’s  position that she’s been promised to attain.

To this end, constitutional judgement left the ANC including the president himself smiling at the centre spot, because they themselves knows precisely that Baleka Mbete always defend the president irrespective of whether the president has been found guilty or not, to concretise this phrase, the ANC President Jacob Zuma recently violated the constitution overtly and was found guilty by the concourt but still in parliament he was defended by the Speaker of Parliament. 

I am scared the judgement made by the concourt today will somehow satisfy ANC’s  tripartite alliance well, simple because they themselves are not in support of the President after all the scandals he made which contradict  to their agreement as the ANC’s supporting structures.   

This whole thing of Zuma taken to court it sometimes worth people of South Africa nothing, because people certainly know that whatever kind of cases Zuma is involved such a case won’t go anywhere. The most vital question is, will Baleka Mbete grant a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against the president? Every concerned compatriot is digesting on that to see if she will be able to fulfil the oath and preserve the status quo so as to serve the people of South Africa as anticipated.