Mabuyane contradiction

IT WAS with some confusion that I read the article “Remove not ancient mark set by fathers” by the EC ANC chair Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane in last Saturday’s Dispatch.

Why confused? The sub-headline read “Message is clear – get rid of rot, restore old values and make ANC inclusive of all South Africans”. Notice the term “all South Africans”. But further in the piece this contradiction becomes apparent in the terms “radical economic transformation” which has within its slogan remit the term “white monopoly capital”.

This suggests white business is to be targeted. Add, of course, the term “land expropriation without compensation” and you have the implication that white farms are to be targeted. So how does the writer get this to fit within the scope of “all South Africans” within the ANC?

He goes on … “The young must get education, villages must be serviced properly, corruption must end, state capture must be eradicated, unemployment must be eradicated, poverty and hunger banished forever and there must be universal access to quality healthcare etc”. What noble slogans. Are they not just platitudes?

Well, sir, after nigh on a quarter of a century the ANC has failed (or perhaps never even tried) to create national and or international wealth-making structures which would benefit the many who are unemployed and in poverty.

Instead, it has spent its time deliberately defrauding through unchecked corruption, and now believes it is justified in stealing from a small minority which has in fact, sustained it through its misspent youth in government. — Rob Prestwich, via e-mail