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Die forums wat geskep word vir die bespreking van hierdie onderwerpe is verblydend. Soos aangedui met die vestiging van die Fugard Conversations. Dit sou uitstekend gewees het indien hierdie beskikbaar gemaak kon word in die formaat van MP3-media waarop ingeskryf kon word of die ekwivalent van FORA.TV wat die beeldmateriaal sou beskikbaar maak.
Dat hierdie ’n tydige gesprek is kan nie betwyfel word nie, aangesien die Financial Times se uitstekende, “Analysis”-afdeling, vandag verslag lewer oor Suid-Afrika.
Die bespreking open met Malema en die kern gedeeltes in verband met Malema word uitgelig.
Dit was in Stjwetla, ’n area in Alexandra, waar Malema die “economic war” teen die wit bevolking verklaar het.
He promised to declare an “economic war” against the white minority, pledging to organise an October 27 March on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and “take the battle to the monopoly capital.
Volgens die artikel, is Alexandra gekies deur Malema, omrede die inwoners van Alexandra “reliable forces for the revolution” is.
Redaksionele kommentaar gepubliseer in die Financial Times in September bied die volgende opsomming van hoekom Malema so ’n problematiese verskynsel is.
As worrying for future stability is the meagre progress towards a more egalitarian society. Mr Malema has capitalised on resulting discontent. The populist policies he and the ANC youth league champion – including nationalisation of the mines and seizing white-owned land – would be disastrous. The former would bankrupt the state and deter the investment needed for growth. The latter would undo progress towards taking the racial poison out of South African politics. However, in the absence of well-articulated alternatives to address gaping inequalities, it is no surprise that the youth league’s ideas have been gaining traction. That is why Mr Malema is dangerous. He is filling a vacuum that more sober politicians have failed to fill.
In plaas van sober denke en beplanning is daar die opruiende populisme van Malema en nie ’n definitiewe en daadwerklike beplanning vir die volgende dekades om die uitdagings die hoof te bied.
Die verrotting word soos volg beskryf:
The ANC, like other liberation movements before it, is becoming more a patronage network than a channel for fresh ideas.
’n Senior sakeman waarmee ’n onderhoud gevoer is, antwoord soos volg op die uitdaging gestel in konteks tot bogenoemde vraag.
Common sense tells you that you’ve got to address poverty, inequality and unemployment in our country, or else the place burns up. So what are the policy things that need to be lined up, and the institutions that need to be lined up, to solve that problem? Part of the challenge is that there isn’t enough coherence yet, on that vision” – in other words, what the next 20-30 years need to look like.
Kgalema Motlanthe bevestig:
That’s a fair criticism.
Kgalema Motlanthe verwys ook na die verskynsel van "self-interest and cronyism" wat kenmerklik is van sommige lede.
Motlanthe beskryf die debat wat heers oor die myne as “irrational” en dui aan dat nasionalisering nie sal plaasvind nie.
Volgens Motlanthe is die belangrikste uitdaging om werk te skep vir die 2,8 miljoen werkloses tussen die ouderdom 18 en 25 jaar van ouderdom.
When Malema says the mining companies are making huge profits and if we nationalise them these profits will address our issues, our plight, the young people hear that. That’s the only message they hear.
Motlanthe beskryf Malema soos volg: "A ‘activist’ who hears ideas and ‘if this or that idea takes his fancy he runs with it. He can’t be blamed for that. We have to provide him with better information to run with that is what we should do.’”
Dit is nie duidelik of dit genoegsaam sou wees om die aard van gesprek in hierdie land te verander nie.
Baie Dankie
Wouter