We+dabblers+shall+overwhelm+the+NEC,+Vukani+Mde,+Weekender

Business Day Weekender, Johannesburg, 2006/07/29 12:00:00 AM
=We dabblers shall overwhelm the NEC=


 * Vukani Mde**

Maybe the ANC’s schizophrenia about “our 21st century Marxists” has more to do with what the ANC has chosen freely to become.

This week’s Financial Mail, in a story with the title AN OVERWHELMING YES, reports that the recent national executive committee (NEC) meeting decided that there was absolutely nothing wrong with public representatives … erhem, “dabbling” in private business.

“The NEC took an overwhelming position that was absolutely yes, there is nothing wrong with ANC members getting involved in business. The question that follows is how,” said ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama, himself a known “dabbler”.

Now comrade Smuts is being somewhat coy. The ANC answered the question of “how” a long time ago. It’s simple really: white companies with plenty of cash and no political legitimacy hook up with ANC-linked darkies with no cash or conscience. In polite circles it’s called “BEE”.

The NEC came to its overwhelming yes after carefully reading a paper on the issue written by, wait for it, Trevor Manuel, Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele, Frank Chikane and Saki Macozoma. Honest.

Now of the 90-odd NEC members, only a handful are without interests in the private sector. This is as true of NEC members who are public servants in office as it is of the out-and-out tycoons like Macozoma. This is not the type of gathering that would have voted overwhelmingly no.

“The problem with the current petty accumulation tendencies, which are so rife within the ANC, is that they are under the economic, social and moral hegemony of private capital,” says an SACP paper that so angered the Unknown Author.

“Unless the ANC as a mass-based, democratic and self-styled ‘disciplined force of the left' begins to assert a real revolutionary authority and discipline over its legislature caucuses, for instance, a petty bourgeois cadre focused almost entirely on commercial racketeering will swallow the organisation."

You’re talking about our NEC, you 21st century Marxist fools.


 * From: http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=2159519**

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