Sunday Tribune

Ramaphosa’s ‘brutal honesty’

-

HOW trustworth­y is Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC? The following statement is included in the memoirs of the late Dr Oriani-ambrosini, one of a few honourable politician­s.

“In his brutal honesty, Ramaphosa told me of the ANC’S 25-year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive, which is done by raising the temperatur­e very slowly. Being cold-blooded, the frog does not notice the slow temperatur­e increase, for if the temperatur­e were raised suddenly it would jump out of the water. He meant that the black majority would pass laws transferri­ng wealth, land, and economic power from white to black slowly and incrementa­lly, until the whites lost all they had gained in South Africa, but without taking too much from them at any time to cause them to rebel or fight.”

The policy described was carried out successful­ly and is continuing apace. When are the whites going to rebel?

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from South Africa