ANC makes real freedom impossible
THE ANC has lost the plot in as far as total emancipation of the South African people is concerned, in the political, economic, social, societal and civic realms.
The ANC wants to do as it pleases in sticky situations here and abroad, to prove its dominance within the massive and largely passive majority of black people whose support it seems to hold here in SA. This is proving to be its Achilles heel in light of the blunder-to- blunder mentality that seems to envelop the organisation at present from national to local structures.
It is bogged down in a top-down directive in all it does. This is underpinned by decisions taken around who would benefit what from the off-spin of money in any of these gargantuan governmental contractual endeavours, meant to firstly benefit the masses who voted for the ANC, coupled to correcting historic imbalances that still exist and will yet exist for a long while to come, at the current corruption-induced and maligned rate.
Blinded by this envy for money – which is probably understandable for penniless persons being exposed to the honey pots of easy pickings that were enjoyed by a select elite few under apartheid as well – they prove the fact that race knows no bounds where avarice is concerned.
A knight in shining armour to give credence to the adage that "cometh the hour cometh the man" is now overdue within the ANC.
SA and the ANC have had their political knights in shining armour in the form of Nelson Mandela and his band of brave and courageous political partners, who dug deep to set us free as a nation, and generations to come will forever be grateful to them for their and their families' sacrifices.
SA now needs an economic Codesa very urgently. Crime, poverty's brainchild, is out of kilter. Witness the Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa being mowed down, to name a case in point.
Big business points to rigid and inflexible labour laws as the reason they don't invest their cash. [Others] hold trillions in SA, yet they complain when crime is crippling their operations.
Instead big business should be helping government by trying against all odds to employ as many people as possible in SA, making sure none go hungry, as it is these hunger pangs that set minds on vice and crime, just to get by every day.
We need our economic Mandela now, who will turn the tables on the pressing, progressive issues needed to move SA in its correct trajectory towards economic emancipation for all. This will hopefully produce a caring society that will in turn develop the economic muscle and clout to free Mother Africa truly from tyrants hell-bent on keeping the Kalashnikov in production all over the world at all costs.
Once Africa settles from her restless ways the world stage needs to be tamed, as it is Africa's offspring at large out there. My bones will have become powder then, yet it has to be done by Africa, and only Africa, as she is one continent who will truly be able to sustain herself against the odds, even though her resources have been raped over thousands of years.
Denzyl Harper, Korsten
