Responses to The ANC’S 5 deadly sins, 17 February Responses to
Interesting that Mbeki can say how BEE has created a parasitic elite, even naming names, the President included, and that White Monopoly Capital is a fiction created by Bell Pottinger at the behest of the Guptas to justify the looting of the state.
Martin Smith
Thank you for that excellent precis. Just a point made by Mbeki surprised me – that whites did not vote ANC in the beginning. Because almost everyone I know voted ANC. We all wanted justice. And all the people I know still feel the same way. The vote now needs to go to a party or parties that will focus on an economy that will attend to these structural issues. The moonshot pact coalition offers the most viable solution of the lot.
Wendy Dewberry
The ANC’S 5 deadly sins, 17 February
Mr Mbeki again hits the nail on the head with a sobering and well-thought-out analysis based on actual facts. I would love to hear your thoughts on the opinion that the ANC will get into bed with the EFF as a last act of desperation. It boggles the mind that you don’t venture into politics, Mr Mbeki. With your absolute grasp of our reality and your pedigree you are, in my opinion, well suited to help save our beautiful country.
Bosman Puren
What a shame to see that Moeletsi Mbeki still hasn’t seen the disaster of neoliberalism, which has caused further inequality since the 1980s. What does stand out in his analysis is the extent to which race identity is still so fundamental in our politics, although some of his conclusions are rather debatable, like the definition of coloured people and the idea that race alone explains the loss of ANC support. That the ANC has long been a great disappointment and clearly unable to save either itself or the country isn’t news.
It’s a shame, though, that there’s still no credible opposition in sight but that everyone seems to arrogantly think they can do better, alone. Or merely grab their share of the spoils of self-enrichment?
Louis Viljee
Excellent summation, except the one issue I have is the statement that none of South Africa’s opposition parties offers solutions to the poverty in the country.
Mbeki has emphasised that it is the private sector that creates jobs and the DA has proven through its achievements in the Western Cape that its policies have helped the private sector to create jobs.
While I understand the reluctance of disgruntled ANC voters to move their vote to the DA because of its erroneously perceived “whiteness”, the option of not voting at all is far worse.