ANC and racism

(published in Business Day 30/5/13)

So the secret of the ANC’s campaign is out, if Premier Mokonyane’s statement yesterday is anything to go but ( Warming over pale males, BD 28/5/13). It’s going to be all about race and nothing but race.

 With a record of almost universal failure across almost every spectrum of government in Gauteng, culminating in the collapse of her Youth employment scheme in tatters  which means that over her five year term of office she has achieved precisely nothing in terms of youth employability, all she and her party have to fall back on is  (to quote her) the “wit gevaar”.  

Just imaging the furore if the DA said the same )( which it would never do) about African leadership in Gauteng. Mokonyane’s rule has brought a bitter harvest to us all, and especially to the poor and marginalized.

 So with no record of success to fall back on, with xenophobia and service delivery protests wracking the province, and with youth unemployment at 60-70%, all she has to contribute is a primitive racism  that makes a mockery of what is left of the old ANC’s claim to non racialism, and that shows to what depths that party has plunged. As Oliver Cromwell said on another occasion, “ You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go”.