FORMER SABC chief operating officer and leader of the African Content Movement (ACM), Hlaudi Motsoeneng, believes he is the only one who can rid South Africa of poverty, unemployment, a deteriorating economy, overwhelming crime and other problems.
Motsoeneng said this at the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Phuthaditjhaba in the Free State on Friday, 29 March that the country needs a determined leader who is bold enough to create decent jobs for all South Africans without fear.
Hlaudi lashed the ANC for using Mandela's name to win votes while having no plans to improve the economy.
"I'm the next Mandela. I'll risk my life to bring the economy to the poor black communities. I will abolish the entire foreign policy that has undermined black people. The country has completely collapsed.
He added: "The ANC-led government is running out of plans. They must just leave power to me, learn and see how I will eliminate the distressed load shedding, rebuild the roads, open the disused factories, end crime, increase the salaries of public servants, abolish the shameful 350 and create permanent jobs for all beneficiaries and end the so-called zama zamas in the mining industry."
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Hlaudi advised South Africans to let former president Nelson Mandela rest in peace and to stop voting for the ANC under his name.
"Former president Mandela is dead, but nature has allowed me to act in his place and liberate South Africa. I demonstrated that at the SABC. I changed the lives of employees, the lives of African content producers. I closed the taps that send money overseas when I brought in 90% local content.
"Of all the people who are called leaders in South Africa, I'm the only leader. No one is born to lead Mzansi, only I am still alive to do so. The whole world protested against me after I took the overseas soapie The Bold and the Beautiful off the screens," he said.
