THE "NEW" ANC IS THE SAME AS THE "OLD" ANC

(Published in Business Day 19/9/12)

I read with wry amusement Gauteng ANC chairman Paul Mashatile’s comments to the Black Management Forum that under the “ new”leadership to be elected at Mangaung there would be lots of nationalisation, and that the new broom would also solve corruption by forming an “ integrity committee”.

Is this the same Mashatile who during his reign as Premier of Gauteng became known as the head of the “ Alex Mafia” of tenderpreneurs ? Who left us with the legacy of the R8 billion Formula one scam exposed by the DA? Whose other legacies of dodgy dealings, inept management and the worst kinds if cadre deployment we are still trying to clean up in the Gauteng Legislature years later ?

That Mashatile?

And as for the strategic nationalisation he expounds, we can have a pretty good guess who that will benefit. And when it comes to the integrity commission, the ANC has already tried that ruse in the GPL: what it means in practice is that corrupt and/or inept MECs can be given shelter from the media storm that ensues when their antics are finally revealed for all to see, and the ill informed “ sub judice” rule can be trotted to stifle debate and oversight.

No sir, the “new” ANC Mr Mashatile envisages looks uncannily like to the old one to us sheep in Animal Farm.

Dr Gavin Lewis

DA MPL Gauteng Legislature