ANC government learnt nothing from the past
Previous regimes took the good from those they succeeded, writes Kwesi Malotane.
I’m surprised by Cosas, Nehawu and Sadtu fighting the ANC about private schools. Before 1994, there were private schools for whites. Why under a black government are there is no private schools run by blacks for blacks?
In 1970 at a convention in Zambia, Oliver Tambo advised the ANC to copy the good from the apartheid regime when they become a government.
When the National Party came to power in 1948, they copied some good from United Party regime. They never rushed to change names and loot state coffers, but built the Afrikaners’ identity. They built schools, hospitals, banks, colleges, universities and, most of all, the Afrikaans language. They united all whites, regardless of national origin.
The ANC restructured bantustans as provinces full of nepotism and corruption and always play the race card when they fail.
Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo, where are your brave men and women in blue when the residents of Boipatong are destroying infrastructure, blocking roads and stoning cars? Running scared, that’s where. The Saps are selective when it comes to policing, and go out of their way to hone in on soft targets.
John Downie
Brigadier Vish Naidoo, take your head out of the sand. You sound like “airbubble” Ramaphosa.
Derek
I think someone should explain what “new and exclusive” means to DStv. It doesn’t mean “we haven’t shown it for two weeks”.
Philip
Fellow South Africans. We are all naughty children in detention. Teacher Cyril and his team think we will be grateful by allowing us to go home 10 minutes early. That’s what it feels like when they make totally irrational decisions on lockdown.
Leigh
Government has given the SIU six months to investigate PPE tenders. I wonder if anyone will be prosecuted? In the history of the SIU, the ANC looter has not been touched.
Tshepo
Further increases in Eskom tariffs: the consumer once again paying for incompetence and the looting of Eskom. When is this going to stop?
Graham W
Corruption in big office. Former acting police commissioner Kgomotso Phahlaane has been fired instead of being locked up. As I have mentioned before, bigwigs end up with a slap on the writs. Corruption will never stop in SA.
Mshebana
It has been proved time and time again that all taxes paid to the fiscus are not being spent with the correct authorisation. I am sure many subscribers to the “fiscus” do not want to be members any longer. What advice do minister Tito Mboweni and commissioner Edwin Kieswetter have?
Ronnie
Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma, the SANDF officers, smoking at the state funeral of Mlangeni, shows just how useless the ban on cigarettes is. Where did they buy them four months into lockdown? Or did they buy them from the saviours of the economy, the illicit dealers?
Mike R
Diko’s “error of judgment” rings more to me like obfusation where words, like spectacles, blur everything and don’t make it clearer. Let’s wait and see how it turns out.
J van Druten, Florida
Do not give up, Dixie. I think I have letters rejected because I am not politically correct but I intend to persevere. Why don’t you and I just muddle through?
Slack Jack