ANC loses intellectual classes
Business Day, 27/6/13
I read Setumo Stone, article on Ms Ramphele with interest (
BD, “ Ramphele needs to turn up heat...” 25 June 2013). Yes, Ramphele will
struggle to connect with the rural poor, as most parties do. But with Agang
something significant is also happening . That is the loss on of the
black intellectual elite to the ANC. The situation is analogous to that of the
National Party in the 1980’s , with the undermining of apartheid ideology from
within that occurred with their loss of Afrikaner intellectuals . Just as the
NP without ideology, or with an ideology that made no sense, drifted into the
phase just before liberation as a increasingly corrupt elite out for what they
could get, the ANC under President Zuma is on a similar trajectory now. And
where is the once all-powerful NP today ? Ask not for whom the bell
tolls....
Dr Gavin
Lewis
DA MPL
Gauteng Legislature
