A strategy to make ANC plans fail

With the latest upheavals in our country’s socio-political environment, I ask myself whether the role of the ANC as a liberation movement is not deliberately being undermined.

To answer myself I went back to the ANC’s 48th national conference resolutions adopted in 1991 in Durban.

One of the key issues raised in that conference was around the handling of the negotiations with a hostile ruling governing party at the time. Through its wisdom, the ANC decided that in order to create a united, non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa it needed to follow a peaceful mechanism in the form of a negotiated settlement.

This approach was further given impetus in the resolutions adopted in the ANC’s 49th National Conference held in 1994 in Bloemfontein, wherein it was agreed that the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was necessary for democratic stability.

Now, 23 years later into our democracy some white gentleman decides that a so-called “Absa life-boat” debacle must be resuscitated.

Another white gentleman decides to write an incisive book about the role of (white) monopoly capital during apartheid. Pardon me for referring to race in this case, but something does not make sense here.

Firstly, the ANC leadership has always been aware of these cases and secondly, the country that is run by the ANC is currently facing political and economic crisis. Yet we are made to believe that these two white gentlemen are genuinely exposing these apartheid scandals at this crisis stage to assist to solve our problem.

Unfortunately, I am not convinced because all this is part of the strategy to ensure that the ANC fails in its mission of establishing a stable state that embraces united, non-racial, nonsexist and democratic values.

Lazola Vabaza, Pretoria