ANC taking SA down the 'low road'

THE ANC has a narrow window in which to implement reforms.

The left-wing faction consists of hardened socialists, communists and trade-unionists who are resisting much needed reforms to liberalise the economy, privatise bankrupt state corporations and put them on a higher growth trajectory.

The whole system has become unsustainable and something is going to give. In a few years it will be too late. Warning signs are flashing of a moribund and decaying ANC, drunk from drinking at the fountain of corruption and tenderpreneurism.

The good news of the past 20 years has not been about ANC success, but rather about pent up demand created by the scrapping of apartheid and the already existing state and private sector infrastructure built over the previous 340 years. We have swapped a white minority racist dictatorship for a black majority racist dictatorship.

The racism and dictatorship of both stink. If the ANC was a business, it would have long ago gone bankrupt.

Who will eventually keep South Africa afloat? South Africa as a failed state is not far off and would have been a reality sooner if the ANC was running the private sector.

Due to mismanagement, the South African state itself will be under increasing pressure to redistribute from whites who are already taxed to the hilt. Coloureds and Indians are still being oppressed with the minor concession that all beaches are now open for them.

But people don't eat sand and drink salt water. What they want are jobs, a good education for their children and a safe environment where criminals are prosecuted and incarcerated, not mollycoddled to satisfy some leftist liberal agenda.

There is no merit in employment. Cadre deployment means the best lie at the bottom and the worst rise to the top.

If the ANC was a religion, it would send all the good people to hell and the bad people to paradise – the opposite of logic and ethics.

In this system, success is penalised, failure is rewarded and it can only go one way – downward.

A demoralised and poorly led police and military will be no match and will crumble and be tossed aside in the face of an army of disaffected Afrikaners, coloureds, Indians and blacks opposed to the ANC.

Any person with his back against the wall, and who cannot emigrate will fight back.

Currently, the various factions within the ANC are fighting over its very soul. Will it take the "high road" or the "low road"?

However, every liberation movement in Africa has stuffed up big time and I cannot see why the ANC won't follow suit and not take the "low road".

Doing otherwise would be to trump history and work against the force of gravity.

The disaffected are not going to sit back while the ANC turns South Africa from a food basket into a basket case.

Naushad Omar, East London