DA’s Natasha Mazzone to the Monster of State Capture: “Bring It On’
A speech in Parliament yesterday by the National DA Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises, Natasha Mazzone, has gone viral… particularly for her catchphrase: ‘Bring It On’. Watch below. Addressing members during the Debate on State Capture, Mazzone said now is the time that South Africans must unite, stand firm and proudly say together: ‘Bring It On’. […]
A speech in Parliament yesterday by the National DA Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises, Natasha Mazzone, has gone viral… particularly for her catchphrase: ‘Bring It On’. Watch below.
Addressing members during the Debate on State Capture, Mazzone said now is the time that South Africans must unite, stand firm and proudly say together: ‘Bring It On’.
She said “imagine the shame of a country” after it was announced in October that SA’s word of the year was ‘State Capture’. She said the once glorious ‘rainbow nation’ has been sold off “piece by piece to a certain family, various multinational companies… all for the political and financial gain of a few people who are happy to see our beautiful country brought to its knees”.
Mazzone described State Capture as “a plan so demonic in its structure, so intricate in its rollout and so deliberate in its purpose that it is truly one of the greatest heists of all time.”
She said the State Capture beast had gorged itself on billions of SA rands… but now that it has been identified its “extinction is imminent” and those who helped grow this “festering, parasitic-filled monster” will learn first hand what it means to have the full might of the law thrown at you.
Mazzone said state owned entities that should be South Africa’s pride and joy are now nothing more than “empty shells, sucked dry by the monster”… a monster which has cost the country its reputation and almost caused an economic collapse.
BUT she said, finally, Parliament has shown its muscle and stood up and is holding the executive to account with a constitutionally mandated committee.
“Not unlike the Game of Thrones term ‘winter is coming’ this committee adopted the term ‘not on our watch’,” she said, and added that “despite numerous attempts to shut down the enquiry, the committee fought back – no MP, no state attorney, no Micky Mouse militia, and certainly no little press conference called by six little men were going to stop us from doing our job…”
The revelations to date have been “startling” and shaken South Africans to the core.
“Imagine the shame of a country, when Parliament plays out on TV like a sordid soap opera with the malicious storyline, and the bad guys are actually those who should be protecting the country.”
She said the inquiry has only just begun.
“South Africans have a right to be outraged and to stand up now and say no more!”
Of the billions that have already been lost, she said at least the “tap has been switched off” and that the power now belongs to Parliament and its members.
“We are the voice of 54 million South Africans who are depending on us to defend our country and save it from the parasitic scourge that is State Capture. We hold the executive to account, not the other way around…
“This is no easy task but I call on South Africa to join me as I proudly say: Bring It On!”
To those who wish to threaten and intimidate she said ‘bring it on’.
“This is the time of our Spring. This is the time of our rising. And we will say at the top of our voices as we sing: let us live and strive for our freedom, in South Africa, our dear land, Nkosi Sikelel‘ iAfrika. A new beginning starts today.”