Tactic to divert attention from Guptas’ actions

THE notion of white monopoly capital has been misappropriated to divert attention from the Guptas’ brazen smash and grab accumulation regime. There can be no denial about this.

In the process, that misuse and discrediting of the notion has produced the effect of concealing a holistic view of the global regime of private monopoly capital – imperialism – which is enormously at play in South Africa.

Over and above the white bourgeoisie of South Africa who dominate with private control of capital in the country, imperialist control of capital has penetrated deeper.

It has become more extensive in South Africa since 1994. Any radical economic transformation that turns a blind eye to imperialism in South Africa will not be genuine.

It will be as false as calling outsourcing and privatisation, placing the state and its functions, the production and delivery of public goods and services on tender to sections of individuals or the elite, radical economic transformation simply because the people involved are black while the masses directly own nothing.

Sadly, for my ANC, as we hold the fifth national policy conference, there are those, within the ranks of our movement, who have joined the thuggery and mafia group.

Let us recognise the blind spot and the need for greater vigilance on the dangers the smash and grab, toxic and parasitic network poses to our revolution.

This smash and grab, rent-seeking parasitic tendency uses all the dirty tricks in South Africa, including intimidation and murder threats, to silence dissenting views and dismiss anyone who dares to stand up against its looting spree.

Painfully, these anti-democratic and even criminal practices are carried out under a democratic order.

We must defeat thuggery, even if it employs the names of those who serve in the highest offices.

Let’s take part in this national policy conference advocating renewal and re-engineering of this glorious movement.

We must never dare to rubbish the legacy of the ANC and those who died for it.

All the best to the ANC fifth national policy conference delegates.

Viwe Sidali, ANC Mzwanele Fazzie branch member and former ANCYL REC member, Buffalo City metro