Sthembewena Surely you jest. If you are not aware that under the popular leadership of the former president, which I do not contest, a lot of things went wrong.
Even though the former president was a popular choice these are the things which went wrong during his tenure in office: • The NEC of the ANC had its functions expanded to include rubbishing sessions of certain leaders of the ANC and then leaders of the Alliance. To be precise individuals who were rubbished in NEC meetings were Cde Mandela, Cde Zuma and the former president of COSATU. I may have left other names out here. I guess the campaign of terrorising the former president of COSATU has worked as he is now working openly with anti-democrats as embodied in the Shikota farce of a movement. • The ANC under its former president allowed a reactionary culture of advancing bourgeois interests to dominate discourse within ANC structures. People who raised issues affecting the workers and the poor were belittled and ridiculed and silly comments and malicious lies spread about them through the media. The victims of this were Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, Tokyo Sexwale, Cyril Ramaphosa, Matthews Phosa, Blade Nzimande, Zweli Mkhize etc. We had people in the NEC who were not ashamed to use the collective funds of public servants to buy stakes (with the former president’s approval according to media reports) in Telkom which was a public entity. Note: PIC manages the investment of public servants’ pension funds and any use thereof should be sanctioned by those public servants. In this case it is clear that this consultation was not done in order to allow the self interest of selected NEC members to supercede the interests of the working class and the poor. • The privatisation of sections of state enterprises which thrived in the post-GEAR years has not benefited anyone except those individuals who were singled out to get shares in the privatised entities. As you know, the privatisation of water and electricity made it more inaccessible to poor people. The privatisation of sections of SAA and Telkom resulted in massive job losses in those sectors. • Under the former president we had cuts in public spending which resulted in no funding for the extension of public services, no improvement of the public infrastructure against a population that was not only growing; but was becoming more impoverished as a result of the GEAR policies which allowed job insecurity and inadequate access to social services. This has resulted in interrupted supplies of electricity, water and rail transport. This has affected the economy much more as industries are relying more and more on road transport for the movement of goods as opposed to the rail infrastructure which is currently rotting. • Under the former president there were unprecedented growths in the economy BUT there was no commensurate improvement in the improvement of the standards of living for the majority of the people. Other families lost their middle class status and sank into poverty as a result of the rationalisation and redeployment policies. At the same time there was a widening of the salary gap between the working class (working poor) and the top echelons of business management. The policy of the state of separating the fora in which the salaries of public servants is discussed in the PSCBC and those of senior management and public representatives being the subject of a special Moseneke Commission is a recipe for widening this gap in the public service. The appearance of independence of the Commission is not fooling anyone. • Under the former president we had a beautiful policy for rural development, but it was sabotaged by inadequate funding for land reform and by lack of a dedicated fund for comprehensive rural development projects. Adopting the reactionary and prohibitive GEAR policy two years after the collapse of apartheid was the most myopic development of our times. We will pay for that foolishness for decades to come, because if the state had been more expansionary at that time, we propbably could afford to begin the belt-tightening exercise now in response to the current global meltdown or alternatively we would be better insulated against it as compared to what we have now. • The other myopic position that we lived with was a waffled-through industrial policy that was short-sighted in the sense that it did not allow for the development of productive industries. It, instead, allowed the opposite where we had closures of productive industries to a point where we now have a very miniscule manufacturing industry. Do not forget that each time there is a contraction in this sector, there are more people laid off. • The relaxation of tariffs and exchange controls (part of the GEAR policy) meant that our industries were under attack from cheaper goods from the East and could not sustain themselves. This too resulted in job losses and more poverty and more dependence on the kleptocratic state. • Under the former president there was a growth of corruption in the state: in housing, child maintenance grants, disability grants, old age pensions, tender system, licences etc. There was no even treatment of corruption cases e.g. in the Eastern Cape where money disappears by the millions, we have not heard of any arrests. There was an irregularity on the school feeding scheme and no action has been taken as yet. • Under the former president we had a sacrifice of public interest development to the greed of the emerging parasitic black bourgeoisie. Instead of utilising state funds to expand public transport and to upgrade the transport infrastructure we are taking billions to reward our friends who got us Zuma on the dock through the Gautrain. Hands up if you will be able to afford to ride on that train after the World Cup hordes have left. Again, instead of upgrading the rotting and inadequate electricity infrastructure we come up with something called the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor to generate electricity. Those in the know indicate that nuclear energy is exceedingly dangerous, google Chenorbyl. Pray nothing goes wrong at the nuclear energy plant. On top of that it is not labour intensive, so very few jobs will be created by the PBMR. Our friend in high places have shares in this disaster waiting to happen. In other words we continue to build white elephants and waste valuable resources with not-so-well-thought-out ideas to benefit our greedy, grabbing friends. • Under the former president we had the worst denialism of the link between HIV and AIDS in our time. Before you say when I will quote his words,â€? Does a virus cause a syndrome?â€? What do you understand by that question? My understanding is that a virus (HV) does not cause a syndrome (AIDS). As a result we took more time debating ARVs instead of distributing them. Do not forget that all these people dying of AIDS were really messing with our balance sheet. We’d rather see the money (surplus) grow in our bank account than use it to benefit our people. • Under the former president we got the “ARMS DEALâ€?. You should know by now that the Germans and the English found corruption in that deal. Not our former pres. He argued that there were no irregularities. On the same breath another person, who was not in National Government at the time, is facing corruption charges linked to the arms deal. If there was corruption in the arms deal, who stood to influence more and gain more: a member of the tender committee or some arbitrary provincial MEC? Before you say other charges have been added to the charge sheet, let me ask you, doesn’t that show that the NPA is really reaching; because they know they don’t have a case. The NPA is playing darts with Zuma’s life. • Under the former pres the voting members of the ANC handed their power over to him on a platter in Mafikeng. If my memory serves me well that is exactly the kind of thing that Harry Gwala fought against in the ANC Conference held in Westville. He argued that political power must not be handed over to the elite of the ANC, but as soon as he was dead that is what the ANC did in Mafikeng, willingly. Is that your idea of democracy? Have you never had of the saying “power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutelyâ€?? That is what the ANC did willingly, gave the former pres absolute power. Polokwane was democratic, because it sought to correct the wrongs of Mafikeng. It put in place checks and balances to ensure that even the current crop of leadership is held to account by the majority, instead of listening to the unfettered voices in their heads. • To me you are the one who thinks the ANC is “a dating service where you can chose (sic) your personal preference to be the president of the organisationâ€?. The ANC spoke in Polokwane “finish and klaarâ€? Get with the programme! It’s either you are with the anti-democratic Shikotas who are crying over spilt milk or you are in the trenches working for a 70% majority vote for the African National Congress. Whatever you say my brother, history will not judge the former president harshly, but it will judge all of us harshly; because we were here and we are still here and all these things are happening. I am always open to education, but you must remember that education is a two-way process. The fact that you are and educator does not mean you can’t learn from your students. I am available for the next class sir! Aluta Continua! On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:37:49 -0700 (PDT) sithembewena tsembeyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it surely state that you even got the??rong end of the > stick and sure that is kee to see it in the wrong blood > that is running though your blood I just hope by any > mIstake you are not related to the GS of the SACP course > the little knoledge that you assume you have is surely an > impirialst propaganda of thought and couse I love this > country I offer my services for free to teach you of the > proccess of democracy and chooises done by masses and in > hope that your understanding of selfcenterednes is not > extrimly grown over a day I promise you you have indeedly > failed yourself by insulting the choises that where done > by the public, I truly can base your thoughts of > discrediting JZ or Vuvuzela, Hey this is not a dating > service where you can chose your personal preference to > be the president of the organisation nevermind the > country so a fair worning to you my dear you have acted > un-communist and surely you know nothing of greatness of > this libaration who can > prevail you to understand revolution of this country > please find a friend in US and do the country a favour > LEAVE!!! > --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Fundi Nzimande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > From: Fundi Nzimande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: Zuma and Malema are > polarising figures! > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 3:30 AM > > Considering that TM started calling the shorts in 1996, > it > has been a very, very long 12 years. > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:03:05 +0200 (SAST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Why are Zuma and Malema such polarising figures. 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