Scramble for Africa bigger

Madam,

,nternational :omen’s Day, 0arch , stands out as a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. ,t would be worth our while as a country to exam ine breakthroughs clinched in social, economic, cultural and political spheres.

The scramble for $frica is not only back with a bigger subtler bang but also with ferocious vengeance. ,n these desperate times, in the desire for the country’s state of demonstrable state of independence and deserved clamour for public policy sovereignty, it is most crucial that the nation is impressed upon to observe what consistently motivates the rich to continue doing what they do.

POVERTY

This is especially so when the rich, across na tions, take care of themselves and periodically meet in capitals of the reputedly rich countries to decide on their continued riches and what to do with the poor as a market rather than ending their poverty. The rich do so at a time when the exercise of public power is shifting from the political sphere to the economic sphere where the majority are absentees by design.

The outcome is designer poverty against which democratically elected governments are system atically disabled to end poverty because, as a rule collectively determined by the financial world, do nors, financiers, investors and globalists, elections are not supposed to change economic policy and the elected ought to minister to that directive when in government. The voice of voters is outweighed by that of money when money talks, governments listen. $nd where money blunders to its loss, the governments never fail to bail it out.

This means the policy sphere is a terrain of the financial world responsible for the financialisation of politics where voters are left without leverage to end poverty through the ballot. Given this back ground, the rich operate within an environment where poverty is an opportunity.

Oupa Ngwenya