Democracy ANC Style and Cadre Deployment

The Policy Conference of the Association for Nepotism and Corruption has clearly stated the view of the Party on what democracy means to it.  One of the decisions of the Conference was that any Member of the Party who takes the Party to Court to uphold his or her rights under the Party’s Constitution will be subject to immediate expulsion from the Party!

This decision is a very clear statement of the meaning of democracy to the Party.  Any person who dares to go counter to the decisions of the leaders is a pariah, and not suitable to be a Party Member!  Those with any knowledge of history will see clear parallels, to the Nazi Party in Germany, which rose to power on the basis of terror and thuggery (do you notice the similarity?), and to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, which sought to maintain that power by the use of strong censorship of the Press, by a network of spies and informers, by lying about the state of the nation, and by a rigid control of what people thought and did.

The development is not surprising.  The ANC is struggling to keep hold of power, as a rising numbers of people, particular the Black Middle Class, come to enjoy a place in the sun, to enjoy the standard of living that comes with better education and the development of real skills that make them valued employees.  These people are starting to realize that the policies of the ANC are not well suited to the management of a modern economy, that the ANC is still living in the dream of Communism, a dream that has become thoroughly discredited during the past three decades.  One cannot blame them for their belief.  Many of the leading lights in the ANC gained their insights and beliefs under an education in Communist Russia, East Germany or Cuba, where the objective of the sponsoring governments was not so much to educate them as to brainwash them!  Pravin Gordhan, the Minister of Finance, is an avowed Stalinist, a belief system that is clearly evident in the fiscal policies of the ANC, which are aimed at State control of anything of interest.  Under the ANC, the numbers employed by the State are ballooning, creating a massive problem in the future for any competent Government, and one which the highly incompetent ANC will certainly not be able to master.  And do not forget – one of the mantras of the ANC is ‘all power!’

The Secretary General of the ANC, in a radio interview during the Conference, defended the principle of ‘Cadre Deployment’, stating that it is not unusual in ‘Western systems’.  In a somewhat surprising ‘endorsement’ of the political system in the United Sates, he pointed out that when a new Party comes to power, all the senior officials are replaced by Party nominees, ensuring that the views of the Party would be upheld in Government.  What he failed to say was that the new officials are generally highly-experienced and competent people, unlike the ANC cadres, who generally have no qualifications other than Party membership, and that the replacement of officials is only in the top posts, unlike under the ANC, where, it seems, the prime qualifications for employment in any meaningful position in Government relate to Party membership.  There can be no doubt that the ANC is enforcing the rules of the Association for Nepotism and Corruption! 

An overriding impression that one gains by speaking to Black people is that the ANC is dividing into two groups – one group consists of the super-wealthy who have gained that status by exploiting the policies of the Association for Nepotism and Corruption, together with the super-poor, that group of people who, through ignorance, largely propagated by the amazingly ineffective education system, continue to vote for the ANC, regardless of the inability or unwillingness of the Government to bring them into the Middle Class.  The countervailing group consists of those who, by their own efforts, have been able to move themselves upward into a comfortable economic position, and recognize that they will be able to continue that upward progress under any system of Government that is not what the ANC is trying to move toward.  These are the people who are against the ANC and what it now stands for.  When one analyses this situation, it is clear that the ANC does not wish to rule over an educated nation!

The opening of the Congress marked a clear anti-white stance by the ANC, with the failure to sing the second half of the National Anthem – Die Stem, the former national anthem of South Africa.  The closing of the Congress, with the President’s speech delayed by nearly an hour in what is becoming a clear pattern of disrespect for the Party Members and the Press, as well as a statement of the ANC’s inability to do anything on time, was marked by a generally unenthusiastic applause, giving the lie to Zuma’s upbeat summary of the proceedings, a summary that played down the defeat of his strongly-advocated proposal for a ‘Second Transition’.  The audience present, in unison with the media audience, was clearly less than impressed by the showcasing of the ANC, a repetition of the remarkably transparent joint Press Conference attended by a smirking Zuma and several uncomfortable members of the top brass of the ANC during the Malema drama, during which Zuma attempted to give credence to his claims that therre was no leadership struggle within the ANC.  The body language of several of those present demonstrated how untrue that claim is.

For those looking for signs that the Association for Nepotism and Corruption is starting to unravel, there can be no doubt that the coincidence of the ANC Policy Conference with the complete inability of the Department of Education to comply with a Court Order to distribute the school textbooks in Limpopo Province was a complete exposure of the incompetence of the Government under the ANC.  The juxtaposition of the proud boasts of the performance of the ANC with the startlingly clear evidence of its incompetence could not have sent a clearer message to any thinking person.