Policies favouring a few at cost of majority

COUNCIL officials should ignore Tony Ehrenreich’s call for putting two or three black families into the Clifton bungalow to be auctioned soon.

Why make two or three black families rich when R20 million can buy a small desalination plant which will benefit all Capetonians? And how are we going to choose who these black families are? By means of a lottery or a waiting list?

Look at the mining industry – a few black crony beneficiaries received free mine company shares not from any hard work, saving and investment, but being the right colour.

How will a few more lucky blacks receive the next tranche of free mine company shares (since the previous lot sold up when their shares went “into the money”)? By means of a lottery or a waiting list?

Does the ANC care that their policy of making everything black in the mining industry will shed another 400 000 jobs – as their policy of black empowerment has caused the loss of 400 000 jobs of poor black miners over the past 24 years.

At this rate, there won’t be a mining industry left if the ANC is at the helm for another 24 years.

Or look at the ANC’s cadre deployment policy. A few cadres benefit with million a year salaries. Who suffers? Not the whites, but the poor blacks who go to dysfunctional schools, clinics, hospitals and police stations managed by these unqualified, uneducated and unskilled cadres and cronies.

A system which favours a few blacks is a sure recipe for corruption. That explains why large sections of the ANC government is prone to corruption. The system is engineered for corruption.

It’s the policy that’s stupid! And then this stupidity is compounded by ANC politicians saying there’s nothing wrong with ANC policy, only its implementation.

Their policies are steeped in favouring a few blacks at the expense of the vast majority – be it land, company shares or managerial jobs. And when the black majority makes little or no progress after 24 years of ANC mismanagement, the ANC blames white farmers, white monopoly capital, apartheid and now the constitution.

A constitutional amendment is needed to speed up this madness – radical economic transformation – meaning only a few more cadres and cronies will benefit at the expense of the majority.

NAUSHAD OMAR Athlone