The African National Congress’s (ANC’s) national executive committee (NEC) statement at the end of the weekend was more of the same. There will be business as usual. The same old National Development Plan, which has still not been implemented after four years, is still being committed to. The ANC still stands by a mixed economy.
It is still taking decisive action to encourage ongoing investment.
It agreed that the country must "defend the integrity of our financial institutions and that the organisation must work to ensure continued macroeconomic stability".
The ANC agreed to it, but did President Jacob Zuma?
Oh yes, it does welcome Invest-SA being overseen by an interministerial committee on investment, chaired by the president, and so on.
It is like the fox chairing the hen-house committee.
The ANC is confident that its policies, practices and current economic actions will contribute to reversing our current economic challenges and that it will continue to give leadership to our country’s economic turnaround. Guaranteed to send us into a recession, then?
It blamed the Guptas for their influence on the president without mentioning the president’s undertaking not to seek rent from or exercise influence on behalf of the Guptas. Secretary-general Gwede Mantashe (pictured) then excoriated the media for characterising the ANC as a "group of factions for and against" Zuma. Yet another lie from the top of the NEC.
The last sentence of the statement reflects the nub: the ANC’s integrity is shot. No one believes anything it or its disgraced and disgraceful president say. There is nothing new in what came out of the NEC other than a burning desire to excoriate the Guptas, while the elephant storms about the room.
South Africans have long since discounted the president. Nothing he says is believed or trusted. And there is no doubt he will keep trying to harm those who get in his way. The difference now is that we don’t believe the platitudes of the ANC either. We are not yours to belittle.
SC Weiss
Parktown North
Jacob Zuma. Picture: REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO
The African National Congress’s (ANC’s) national executive committee (NEC) statement at the end of the weekend was more of the same. There will be business as usual. The same old National Development Plan, which has still not been implemented after four years, is still being committed to. The ANC still stands by a mixed economy.
It is still taking decisive action to encourage ongoing investment.
It agreed that the country must "defend the integrity of our financial institutions and that the organisation must work to ensure continued macroeconomic stability".
The ANC agreed to it, but did President Jacob Zuma?
Oh yes, it does welcome Invest-SA being overseen by an interministerial committee on investment, chaired by the president, and so on.
It is like the fox chairing the hen-house committee.
The ANC is confident that its policies, practices and current economic actions will contribute to reversing our current economic challenges and that it will continue to give leadership to our country’s economic turnaround. Guaranteed to send us into a recession, then?
It blamed the Guptas for their influence on the president without mentioning the president’s undertaking not to seek rent from or exercise influence on behalf of the Guptas. Secretary-general Gwede Mantashe (pictured) then excoriated the media for characterising the ANC as a "group of factions for and against" Zuma. Yet another lie from the top of the NEC.
The last sentence of the statement reflects the nub: the ANC’s integrity is shot. No one believes anything it or its disgraced and disgraceful president say. There is nothing new in what came out of the NEC other than a burning desire to excoriate the Guptas, while the elephant storms about the room.
South Africans have long since discounted the president. Nothing he says is believed or trusted. And there is no doubt he will keep trying to harm those who get in his way. The difference now is that we don’t believe the platitudes of the ANC either. We are not yours to belittle.
SC Weiss
Parktown North
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