No change in gross imbalances of wealth in fisheries on ANC’s watch
IT IS with great disillusionment, and with an equal amount of deep sadness that I have to repeat the same comments and same response as I had done for the past 21 years of ANC-led failed governance and party political patronage (as the disguise for Black Economic Empowerment), where politically connected good buddies are seated, as “BEE partners”, around the director’s table of the five to seven largest and most powerful former fully lily whiteowned apartheid-initiated fisheries monopoly cartels that had been established by the formerly National Party Broederbond-controlled neo-capitalist business conglomerates (whose economic policies were devised to advance the material and social interests of whites only), at the dire expense of millions of coloured and black people.
This was and still remains the very same agenda with its horribly discriminatory and unjust legislative status quo based upon atrocities such as unequal access; inequitable distribution (or natural productive resources) and its institutionalised unfair participation and the continued skewed ownership (of South Africa’s fisheries economy that are worth tens of billions to a handful of politically-connected privileged cronies and their surrogates).
Ultimately, the minister’s token position and, her window-dressing role, as purveyor of party political patronage is, yet again a very clear confirmation of the ruling party’s self-enrichment scheme which fleeces off the carcasses of the poor in this country.
As I have said umpteen times in the past, the role and function of a minister in the present government is one of gatekeeper (and perpetrator of the inequalities that characterises state capture).
It is still the same groups and individuals (with the exception of a small spattering of prominent politically-connected black faces), that fatten themselves on the continued exclusion and suffering of coloured and the majority of fellow black South Africans.
There has been no change in the gross imbalances that illustrates the unjust way that fisheries wealth in this country is being administered… by the ANC. CHARLES AMERICA | Ocean View