The National Assembly adopted the proposed amendment to section 25 of the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation.
South Africa had former president Jacob Zuma for almost 10 years and they never seriously considered EWC. OK, then it was about personally enriching No.1, ANC cadres, Guptas and friends and the blatant theft of South Africa under our noses.
But now that Zuma is no longer in government (although probably pulling strings behind the scenes), the ANC is supposed to be stronger and mending with Ramaphoria the Saviour. Instead it's gone full-tilt crazy. I don't understand. Isn't cutting out the tumour - Zuma and state capture - and undergoing therapy supposed to make the patient better, not starkers?
It can't all be about Ramaposter securing his place in 2019 bec it's unlikely the ANC will fire him so soon. EFF is a marginal party making a lot of noise and the media and others giving it a larger profile than it deserves. So it can't be about the ANC fearful of a significant election loss with those votes going to the EFF as those tired has beens Max du Preez, Peter Bruce, John Matham (oddly, white senior citizens) et al think may happen if South Africans don't vote for the ANC in large numbers.
Just as sociopaths and psychopaths hide their nature in order to function in society, so the ANC hid, or tried to, its authoritarian and nationalist and Marxist DNA of which EWC is part while it was distracted by self-enrichment, the 'I didn't enter politics to remain poor'. But the speed and extent of Zuma-era corruption laid bare that project that shocked even them - it was likely meant to be gradual. Remember, it started with BEE created and underwritten by apartheid-era white monopoly capital that merely changed its form to white-fronted BEE and esp the arms deal especially that showed cadres what was possible.
EWC is a massive con, and like all cons, fortuitously for the ANC, a distraction initially driven by the EFF, which it coopted. It's a distraction that obscures what's really going on elsewhere: it distracts from the awfulness of state capture in which the entire ANC membership is culpable including alleged 'heroes at the bridge' Ramaposter and Gordhan and going back 20 years. It's a distraction from the fact the country is almost bankrupt, financially and ito of vision including Mr 'The Long Game's' confusion and being bereft of ideas, and that his appointment too is, therefore, a con.
The one trillion rand nuclear deal was supposed to be arms deal and state capture 3.0 but on a huge scale. That was scuppered because it become public and the haste of the ANC is acquiring the loot so a new project was hastily adopted: EWC. We can guess what benefits shall accrue to the comrades as Zimbabwe's land grab did for Mugabe and company. Sociopaths and psychopaths can't change their innate nature.
EWC is a con, and like a con's victims, in this case South Africans, it will have real consequences. One of the problems is the ANC has no plan for how it will be implemented. Whatever they say it will not and cannot be fair and just - expropriating or stealing someone's property never is. Expropriating for the greater good in exigent circumstances perhaps, but here there's no greater good.
The reasons for EWC - predominant white ownership of land - is specious especially when government's post-1994 land restitution programme failed for inter alia incompetence and negligence and people don't want to farm. And SA like many developing countries is urbanising rapidly. Will urban property also be taken?
Of course, we know their justification for it is false and a smoke screen. So that leaves the majority of the population who may still believe their election lies of a 'better life for all'. But if polls are to believed even those voters are becoming disillusioned with the ANC possibly getting just over 50% of the vote next year. The distraction is intended for all of us. But it appears the ANC is fooling themselves, as sooner or later all cons are revealed for what they are.
South Africa had former president Jacob Zuma for almost 10 years and they never seriously considered EWC. OK, then it was about personally enriching No.1, ANC cadres, Guptas and friends and the blatant theft of South Africa under our noses.
But now that Zuma is no longer in government (although probably pulling strings behind the scenes), the ANC is supposed to be stronger and mending with Ramaphoria the Saviour. Instead it's gone full-tilt crazy. I don't understand. Isn't cutting out the tumour - Zuma and state capture - and undergoing therapy supposed to make the patient better, not starkers?
It can't all be about Ramaposter securing his place in 2019 bec it's unlikely the ANC will fire him so soon. EFF is a marginal party making a lot of noise and the media and others giving it a larger profile than it deserves. So it can't be about the ANC fearful of a significant election loss with those votes going to the EFF as those tired has beens Max du Preez, Peter Bruce, John Matham (oddly, white senior citizens) et al think may happen if South Africans don't vote for the ANC in large numbers.
Just as sociopaths and psychopaths hide their nature in order to function in society, so the ANC hid, or tried to, its authoritarian and nationalist and Marxist DNA of which EWC is part while it was distracted by self-enrichment, the 'I didn't enter politics to remain poor'. But the speed and extent of Zuma-era corruption laid bare that project that shocked even them - it was likely meant to be gradual. Remember, it started with BEE created and underwritten by apartheid-era white monopoly capital that merely changed its form to white-fronted BEE and esp the arms deal especially that showed cadres what was possible.
EWC is a massive con, and like all cons, fortuitously for the ANC, a distraction initially driven by the EFF, which it coopted. It's a distraction that obscures what's really going on elsewhere: it distracts from the awfulness of state capture in which the entire ANC membership is culpable including alleged 'heroes at the bridge' Ramaposter and Gordhan and going back 20 years. It's a distraction from the fact the country is almost bankrupt, financially and ito of vision including Mr 'The Long Game's' confusion and being bereft of ideas, and that his appointment too is, therefore, a con.
The one trillion rand nuclear deal was supposed to be arms deal and state capture 3.0 but on a huge scale. That was scuppered because it become public and the haste of the ANC is acquiring the loot so a new project was hastily adopted: EWC. We can guess what benefits shall accrue to the comrades as Zimbabwe's land grab did for Mugabe and company. Sociopaths and psychopaths can't change their innate nature.
EWC is a con, and like a con's victims, in this case South Africans, it will have real consequences. One of the problems is the ANC has no plan for how it will be implemented. Whatever they say it will not and cannot be fair and just - expropriating or stealing someone's property never is. Expropriating for the greater good in exigent circumstances perhaps, but here there's no greater good.
The reasons for EWC - predominant white ownership of land - is specious especially when government's post-1994 land restitution programme failed for inter alia incompetence and negligence and people don't want to farm. And SA like many developing countries is urbanising rapidly. Will urban property also be taken?
Of course, we know their justification for it is false and a smoke screen. So that leaves the majority of the population who may still believe their election lies of a 'better life for all'. But if polls are to believed even those voters are becoming disillusioned with the ANC possibly getting just over 50% of the vote next year. The distraction is intended for all of us. But it appears the ANC is fooling themselves, as sooner or later all cons are revealed for what they are.
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