I hope and pray that the revelations of egregious looting of state resources that have been made at the Zondo Commission will make us understand that no nation has ever grown wealth for all and flourished without rooting out corruption comprehensively.
Many of these acts of theft date back to more than a decade because the criminal justice system was systematically weakened and undermined. It is therefore not surprising that our GDP per capita rates have been in decline for so long. This should worry you.
A more worrying development is that this has now morphed into a culture since the ANC gained political power. It all started with the original sin of the arms deal.
To root out this practice at all levels of government will require more than the resources
of the NPA and the Hawks. We must expose such criminality without hesitation ourselves.
How is it possible that all municipalities under the ANC are wrecked by malfeasance? This is straight from the AGSA reports. And yet municipalities in the WC fair better?
President Ramaphosa will need to demonstrate nerves of steel and courage to push back dissenting factions in his party that are determined to fight for protection from prosecution. That battle is bound to intensify with the arrest of the ANC SG.
More senior members of the ANC shall be prosecuted in the weeks and months ahead. This is bound to shake the structural integrity of the party, or whatever remains of it. The ANC will Not survive this turmoil. It will have to reinvent and reposition itself.
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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.
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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🙇♂️