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Capitalism is the source of prosperity, says new party

- IAVAN PIJOOS

“Politician­s make us feel guilty for working hard to improve our lives.”

A new political party‚ called the ZACP Capitalist Party of South Africa and whose logo is a purple cow‚ was launched at the Rand Club in Johannesbu­rg on Sunday.

The party was founded by 10 people who describe themselves as “positive disrupters” and who believe their innovative thinking could find solutions to many of South Africa’s problems. The ten founders are: Kanthan Pillay‚ Roman Cabanac‚ Neo Kuaho‚ Gideon Joubert‚ Unathi Kwaza‚ Duncan McLeod‚ Sindile Vabaza‚ Louis Nel‚ Katlego Mabusela and Dumo Denga.

“It is time to put an end to the tyranny of incompeten­ce‚” Pillay said at its launch in Johannesbu­rg.

“We need to fix this and the only way to fix this is for those of us who actually know how to make things work to stand up and say‚ ‘get out of the way‚ we’ve got this’‚” Pillay said.

Pillay said SA was a capitalist country‚ adding that “capitalism has unleashed the biggest wave of prosperity in the history of the human race”.

“Here in our beautiful South Africa‚ politician­s have turned capitalism into a swear word.

“They make us feel guilty for working hard to improve our lives. And this guilt allows us to let them steal money from hardworkin­g families and use the money for corruption.”

He said the party’s founders believed it was the only political party which refused to be a prisoner of the past‚ saying he believed this group of people knew how to shape the future.

“A vote for a small party is not splitting the vote. The way in which our proportion­al representa­tion system is structured actually favours smaller parties. So your vote has more impact‚” he said.

According to its website‚ it chose the cow as a logo because‚ “cattle are Africa’s most potent symbol of personal wealth. Our logo also represents a bull market”.

The party has committed to 10 core principles needed to ensure their values of a prosperous SA are achieved. These are:

Liberty;

Individual rights before group rights;

Tolerance and absolute protection of freedom of expression;

Private property rights protected by law;

Rule of law;

Right to work;

The right to be secure on your own property and to defend yourself against intruders;

Free markets and internatio­nal free trade based on enlightene­d self-interest;

Firearms for self-defence; and

Spontaneou­s order and civil society.

Here in our beautiful South Africa‚ politician­s have turned capitalism into a swear word

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