Baleka Mbete Queen of Clowns

THE FACE OF FRAUD AND CORRUPTION
Dishonourable Speaker, Baleka Mbete widely tipped to take over and replace Thabo Mbeki as president if only for a few months.

Mbete's detractors describe her as haughty and autocratic.

“The queen of South Africa,” Waters said. “That’s the role she sees for herself.”

Mbete was married to the poet Keorapetse Kgositsile. Following their divorce, she dropped his name — reportedly at his insistence.

Recently added to her resume is her attitude to uniting the nation. Remember her bit of hate speech a week ago after the Nicholson Judgment?

Her support for Zuma has been increasingly strident and vocal, culminating in a near-hysterical performance outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court when she launched an attack on Sunday Times editorial cartoonist, Zapiro. Our acting State President designate, said in explanation, to the illiterate and uninformed masses, Zapiro in his cartoon, "DEPICTS our PRESIDENT ZUMA AS A RAPIST OF WHITE WOMAN"...a lie designed and aimed at creating division and racial hatred.

- Madam president-to-be Mbete is a 'gravy-perked' shareholder in Dyambu Holdings (Gautrain project) Dyambu Holdings are linked to murdered magnate Brett Kebble.

- In April 1997, Mbete 'bought' her fraudulent driver's license from a corrupt official, saying she had been "too busy" to stand in queues. She was not charged with any wrongdoing.

- In 2007, Mbete suspended DA member Mike Waters after he attempted to ask what was being done about the Manto Tshabalala-Msimang theft scandal in Botswana.

- Mbete blocked attempts by the DA to clarify the muddied waters of the arms deal and the secret meeting Mbeki held with representatives of French arms company Thompson CSF in 1998. This was in light of former ambassador Barbara Masekela's admission that she had arranged a meeting between the President Mbeki and the French arms company.

- Mbete too was one of the parliamentarians caught with her hands in the TravelGate cookie jar and found to have misused subsidised travel privileges and accused of irregularly using parliamentary travel vouchers to travel within South Africa on dates when she was in Ghana.

- In 2006, Mbete attracted controversy when she chartered a jet at a cost of R471 900 (around US$60 000) to fly to Monrovia, Liberia, to attend the inauguration of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as president, Africa’s first elected female head of state.

- She has been a staunch supporter of Tony Yengeni, a former ANC Chief Whip in parliament, who was convicted of defrauding parliament in 2004, even accompanying Yengeni to Pollsmoor Prison when he reported to serve his sentence.

- A vocal supporter of Jacob Zuma, ...'GO FOR IT BOSS'!

...all the required credentials to pass the Zuma & Tsotsis Pty LTD presidential standards!

Let the comedy continue...