ANC’s Treasury teachings

I am very proud of the ANC’s stance after rebuking the ANC Youth League’s eThekwini region for making nonsensical claims about the role played by Pravin Gordhan as the political head at the Treasury. These baseless accusations included claiming a lack of transformation in government procurement processes and alleging that the Treasury has been captured by white monopoly capital.

These laughable accusations have been at the core of the Gupta-inspired project to malign the good work of the Treasury. Even Mzwanele Manyi and his associates at the Black Business Council jumped on this bandwagon driven by people who have no intention of pursuing a genuine transformation agenda.

This country has the best Constitution in the world, part of the success of which is the protection of the government purse. Since the ANC’s rule, we have seen a sober and rational transformation of government procurement processes. Black people have been the main beneficiaries of a transformed procurement system. The only challenge is that it has allowed the proliferation of a politically aligned business class that is solely reliant on state tenders.

Unfortunately, Gordhan’s initiatives to clean up the government procurement system have been viewed as antitransformation by this politically aligned business class, which is backed by groupings such as the ANC’s eThekwini region. After being politically educated on ANC deployment policy, the region now understands that Gordhan is firstly an ANC deployee and secondly is implementing policies of the ANC at the Treasury.

Lazola Vabaza

Pretoria