Who'll restore Madiba's ideal?

ON the anniversary of his passing, Nelson Mandela is remembered as the one who led the struggle for freedom of the South African people and prevented the bloodshed that would surely otherwise have followed.

He saw the hatred and resentment of the apartheid regime generated corruption, and that with freedom must come reconciliation and the recognition of the equal dignity of all human beings, to be truly free.

This legacy he left to the ANC. However the ANC disappointed him.

It has dropped the ball which he passed to it. Mandela said: "We have learnt now that even those people with whom we fought the struggle against apartheid's corruption can themselves become corrupted."

In 2001 the former president said the (ANC) reputation had been tarnished by a series of financial scandals and abuse of power. "Little did we suspect that our own people, when they got the chance, would be as corrupt as the apartheid regime."

That really hurt us.

Things have gone from bad to worse.

Who is going to restore to the South African people the ideals of Mandela?

Clearly it will not be the ANC.

Mawethu Kosani, Sweetwaters, King William's Town