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Thabang Motsohi
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It is untenable + baffling that when the country desperately needs firm and decisive leadership to steer us out of economic stagnation and horrifying unemployment the President seems to be focused on uniting the ANC. Basically what he is trying to do is to
achieve peace and accommodation between a faction that wants corruption and looting to continue because they are beneficiaries and those that want to see law and order and social justice achieved at all levels. The values that binder them contradict each
other fundamentally. They want a captured state and its broken criminal justice system to continue because they will Not have to account for their actions. The other, led by President Ramaphosa wants accountability. These are fundamentally irreconcilable
objects. Why then is Cyril spending sleepless nights yrying to prevent an inevitable constructive destruction of a structurally corrupt organisation? Plse read a comprehensive argument in my book Fit for Purpose available online at thabangjmotsohi.com
At the centre of all this is the Tripartite Alliance. It is the quintessential object of what we mean by the most counter revolutionary force since the democratic era. Thay have directly caused policy incoherence + gridlock as unelected partners of the ANC.
Thabo Mbeki was principled and thoughtful enough to realise that they need to be limited to the periphery in order for the ANC to govern. For that they connived with a morally compromised JZ to oust him. Vavi and Malema led this effort.
Now that we have to urgently and rationally debate the Tito economic recovery proposals Cosatu is on a high on some spurious process issues. Goddamit the country is imploding because of them. This is our moment now. We demand to be heard.
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