This is a very depressing revelation for us ordinary people without resources and political connections. What it actually confirms is that criminal elephants and gangs associated with the ANC have captured the law enforcement agencies. constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/toshan-panday-…
The judiciary also seems compromised as can be seen from the FS housing project and others. Ace and his gang boasted that no prosecution would take place against their surrogates. They lived in the land of 'milk and honey'. Fi ally it is unravelling
at the Zondo commission. God really has a funny way of exacting retribution. Now they are pissing in their pants. Just that we can't see the evidence. How lovely and satisfying. The implicated must be having diarrhoea these days.
One of the critical factors that define a failed state is the inability to arrest and prosecute cases like the looting of the FS housing project unravelling at Zondo commission. An alternative state was clearly in power here as in many places.
By definition we have been a failed state for the past decade as impunity reigned under the Zuma administration. @CyrilRamaphosa faces a double jeopardy. Fix both the Zuma and pandemic destructions. This must be his sole mission. Nothing else.
One of the beneficiaries of this project bought all building materials suppliers in Reitz out or his R300 million bonanza and after 4yrs of exuberant high life went bust. Ace ans company have a lot to answer for.
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I find it difficult to find fault with this clearly honest SONA speech evaluation.
The focus is on primary challenges the most impor4ant of which is dysfunctional municipalities.
This is where job creating factories are created. outa.co.za/blog/newsroom-…
Government states that the District Model shall fix the wrongs in munics.
Strategically this has to be premised on a clear articulation of primary problems and structural weaknesses.
And an explanation of why some munics work while most don't.
This is missing
Further, a clear articulation of constraints to effective execution of this new approach is missing.
Without these grounding factors, the intention in SONA on munics is a blissful wish list.
I'm open to views in the contrary.
@OUTASA
@PresidencyZA
If you seriously reflect on how the ANC Tripartite Alliance govmnt has destroyed the capability of the state system, and municipalities under its control, through leadership incompetence, this country should be the leader in rolling anti-government protests.
Regardless of this serious indictment, party leaders and their zealots, continue to claim that they are the 'Leader' of society.
This term applies to pre-democratic liberation struggle phase to mobilize people around one mission to defeat apartheid.
It's a meaningless concept to the last three generations.
The challenges now in our diverse country are about economic growth and social upliftment.
The ANC have demonstrated with abundant evidence in the past 2 decades that they cannot be trusted to deliver
The universal truth and reality is that aggregate national growth is driven by metropolitan cities Not national governments.
In South Africa therefore, the GNU is less important.
A party that controls a well run Metro shall win national support.
The ANC did not lose majority power because of bad national policies. Yes, their misaligned policies and "Party-State" mindset derailed focus from the national interests.
The electorate punished them for dysfunctional municipalities under their control.
Lessons: 1. Win the Metros outright or agree a solid coalition to grow national support. 2. Ensure that worldclass leadership and competencies are employed 3. Completely eliminate political interference through well drafted municipal legislation
The pervasive and racialized structural inequality in SA is a deliberate outcome of racial exclusion under colonial and apartheid systems.
The Broad Black Econonic Empowerment laws and regulations under democratic government have failed to reverse it.
But they have succeeded partially because the beneficiaries were in practice limited to political elites and their surrogates and cronies. Again the black majority continue to be excluded and relegated to the bottom of the colonial supremacist class hierarchy
This is because the ANC ANC Tripartite Alliance succumbed to the allure of apartheid power positions and benefits to the exclusion of their mandate as defined in the Freedom Charter.
They ignored to create a capable state to achieve social justice.
Post-apartheid political mandate granted to the ANC was about assuring equitable justice in all areas and creating conditions for a better life for all.
Many policies and programmes that must, or could have been done, were not done or were poorly attempted.
The following five rank amongst the most important that should have been achieved in three decades.
They were criminally neglected and yet a good basis was inherited in 1994. They needed a capable state and focus on the national interests at all costs.
1. An aggressive expansion of quality infrastructure for Basic Education; Secondary Schools; Technology Colleges and some universities; Primary Health; Hospital Network. 2. Deployment of top competences at all municipal functionary levels from Mayor.
The ANC policy and application of cadre deployment that has not been foregrounded on optimal competences and meritocracy for over two decades, in contradiction to how it is applied by the Chinese Communist Party, is counter-revolutionary and antiproductive.
The systemic collapse of municipalities and all our logistics state agencies and infrastructure, that are the oxygen of economic development, can scientifically be ascribed to the blind application of this policy by the ANC in government.
President Ramaphosa chaired the ANC Deployment Committee while he was deputy President.
All the disastrous deployments to critical positions in the SOEs carried his signature.
He has now called for a National Dialogue next year to review the past 15 years🙇♂️