YESTERDAY'S BIG DEBATE "ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION"

After watching the big debate one would think that the concerns raised I may be having are a concern that is going to damage the results for the ANC come 2014. If I was Minister Gigaba I would have felt humiliated and ashamed from what I have seen as the picture that will be portrayed in the polls come 2014 NPE. The people have shown that they have lost confidence in the government led by ANC and can you blame them? I would not if we have people who are busy enjoying the benefits of our liberation while the majority of ordinary people are living in squalor and poverty. 

You have Ministers, Officials or tendrepreneurs get fat checks and not willing to pay rent at compounds they live in, how do they expect poor people to pay for services that are poor or are of second hand. Some of the challenges that the country will face should we have a government that will not have a majority rule will be seen once the pudding is on the table and served.

South African majority have shown the Minister that they are no longer interested in rhetoric theory that the ANC has played in the past 17 years since democracy come into picture.  One of the questions asked was that the ANC should not stick on policies that have not been visible for one to see, RDP, GEAR, NDP were used as policies that have failed and will fail in the people’s eyes as long as the country will be moving towards promoting a few individuals than looking at things that would benefit the majority of ordinary citizens. It was a lesson that politicians should learn, in that you cannot think that people are stupid you will just run things without serving the policies that you aim to achieve. If the RDP failed the nation in 1999, it has meant that the ANC cannot rely on policies that should have been implemented a long time ago. I have learnt that yes, despite the gains made by ANC in the past of building houses, it has failed to move in the pace the ordinary citizens have expected it to run. 

The lesson was that the ANC cannot boost on issues that the people were promised of in the 1994 campaigns and are not practical in 2013, what will make things different come 2014? Same rhetoric promises of policies that will be difficult to implement as it has been the case since the last elections. Yesterday’s show left me with the idea that people are saying “Dedel’ abanye” and the majority of them in that show have shown that they have lost confidence on the party that also played a role in liberating this country. If parties such as AZAPO, PAC and others are outside, then is it time for ANC to give others a chance to take over? History has shown that in Africa, if that will be the case… a lot of progress will be achieved, then it goes to that point I have raised in the previous “History of South Africa and ANC 20 Years Later” that, a patriotic front movement needs to be revived and that the ANC will have to dissolve itself from being a political party and just remain a cultural movement for all South Africans. In South Africa we only need four political parties to contest elections. I would share the same sentiment with those who were in that Big Debate that we need to look at the Education system of our country and invest in educating the youth on programs aimed at empowering them. It only depends on the material that one reads, you can have your Masters, PHDs but if you are only focusing on reading the wrong material, you will still have a system of those who are educated and do not plough back to the communities that they grew up. People will always want a better life; they will always migrate to better communities if the communities they grew up are still grime and that is what the ANC has become.