Published on Linkedin on September 1, 2017
The days of the ANC are over. The ANC are to be admired as a liberation force and
their accomplishments to 1994 are to be applauded. But as a governing party, it has
taken but twenty-three years to prove that they are sorely lacking in ability, ideas and
morality.
The Constitution that they completed in 1990 and that was honed in 1994 to one of
the finest in the democratic world, lies gathering dust as they revert to the syndrome
of big man tribalism, African elitism, kleptocracy and national disdain which has
typified Africa since the start of decolonization in 1941.
The western world has once again turned its back on South Africa and Foreign Direct
Investment, as a consequence, is dwindling.
The mineral resources that buoyed up white minority rule in the latter part of the last
century, have largely been depleted and new job creating technologies, looming on
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the international horizon, are beyond the reach and capability of a poorly educated
South African population.
Financially, the country hovers around junk status and bail out loans are difficult to
obtain with a debt to GDP rate of over 50%. The economy continues to plummet. A
punitive IMF bailout looms.
Support of the enormous body of social grant recipients is not sustainable in the face
of high unemployment and migrating taxpayers.
The ANC has alienated entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Roelof Botha and others who
now spawn jobs for foreign countries. Farmers also now plough their skills into foreign
loam.
The ANC have yet to be convinced that their old school teachers Karl Marx and Fidel
Castro were wrong after all.
Will the next Nelson Mandela please stand and unite this motley nation?
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