Blame management, not colonialism

I REFER to the report on VIP Mamphela Ramphele’s recent speech in The Mercury (March 15). Although Ramphele is honest in admitting: “We are now in this crisis with rampant corruption and collusion”, she chides other South Africans for not being more verbal about the absence of ethics, but avoids personal attacks that must be made by black VIPs on black VIPs for the situation to improve.

Significantly, she awards all credit for the end of apartheid and for our “amazing” constitution to Nelson Mandela, ignoring that he must have approved section 9 (2) of the latter, which invited the permanent anti-white racist legislation of BEE and Expropriation of Whiteowned land that followed.

Apparently, it is fine with her that a tiny minority is denied employment purely because they are white.

As if her rambling hypocrisy about moral standards is not irritating enough, the fact is that, due to anti-white racist policies, South Africans now has an alarming skills shortage. This is why we narrowly avoided total power failure in 2014, SAS Drakensberg is now stuck in Mozambique with engine failure, about 20 “arms eal” jet fighters can’t be flown, and recently imported locomotives are too tall for our tracks!

The list of shortcomings of black management is endless.

Recently all hell broke loose over Zille’s tweet: “For those claiming legacy of colonialism was only negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water etc”.

She should have added “Rhodes scholarships”, but failed to appreciate that some people are deeply offended by any reminder that their ancestors may have contributed little more than labour to the superb infrastructure they inherited, gratis, in 1993.

ROGER LAYZELL Rosehill