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I heard this from the Pan African YL - Africa for Africans at the ANCYL conference. It's is also quite interesting what the new view of left and right politics is. Cosatu for instance is left and the left is now calling the African Nationalists, the right. This actually makes more sense calling a section of the minority - right.
www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/p...&sn=Detail&pid=71654
What is significant is Malema's opening address. The traditional left SACP is no longer the vanguard of the poor in his great and wise opinion. He believes this now the responsibility of the ANCYL, amongst other rhetoric, land without compensation and nationalisation of mines. What he fails to acknowledge is a rise in the black middle and wealthy class. He fails to mention that Government in itself is the largest company in SA and as a result, the largest spender. He fails to mention that the white minority is already excluded from access to this spend. He has failed to mention reasons why there seeming is no entrepreneurial spirit to rise above existing companies in SA. He fails to mention that the wiling seller / buyer model failed partly due to the uncontrolled plundering of the Landbank. He fails to understand that most of the revolutionaries he mentions in his speech sacrificed a lot. What sacrifice is this great revolutionary making. Oh sorry he is making a sacrifice, fellow South Africans! He seeks to nationalise SA's banks? Come on what planet are we on here. He is lying to the people of SA, he has not put forward a coherent working model for the nationalisation agenda. He has not shown even his own people how the nationalisation model will benefit the masses. Our government, SA's largest company and biggest spender cannot fix the poor situation, yet he wants us to believe that nationalization of certain key assets will. It will continue to fix the pockets of the few.
I read an article the other day (could have been Cosatu again),
www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/of-fooli...class-race-1.1079120
the writer pointed out how misguided the black youth are. Black youths aspire to government jobs whilst, white, Indians and mixed race kids look to providing for themselves as they know they have no access to gov jobs. The meat puppet does not acknowledge this other than say that it is a result of "apartheid theft" and all should be taken away from the "thieves".
This form of African Mugabe style Nationalism does not end at white SA. The Indians, mixed race, Chinese (Especially the Chinese - Floyd already having a go at Government for joining Brics) will be next on the list of most hated by SA African Nationalists. Although limited, these African nationalists will view the representation these groups had in the former government as more than they had. They will view this as 2nd class citizenry whilst they themselves were expelled to the ranks of 3rd class citizenry. From there of course we will follow the history of the rest of Africa and further wars will be waged its own people on tribal lines. What is left, powerful African nationalists in a Banana Republic and people in a worse position than they are in now. I fail to believe that the state can effectively manage key strategic assets without a certain level of plundering. Unlike Capital they are also unable to control spend on HR and this is the Achilles heel of the ANCYL plan.
I was young when Winnie Mandela was a major force in SA politics but somehow I seem to remember her as being quite a radical political force. I am no convinced that she was happy with the outcome of our democracy and would preferred a Julius Malema proposed outcome. So it begs the question - "Who's speech was it anyway?"
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