Congress of (Rich) People They never struggled to be poor. The upcoming political party which believes in stealing other party?s history is mistakenly calling itself the congress of the people. This party is not the Congress of People but Congress of the rich, is established to defend the bourgeoisie democracy that was established by the 1996 class project led by the former state president Thabo Mbeki. The majority of the people who are involved in this organisation are those who were in government for the past 14 years. Also the majority of them with their families have benefited from the broad based economic policies that were implemented under the leadership of Thabo Mbeki. Today they claim that the ANC has been hijacked by both the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. So they are establishing the new party so that they can defend democracy, bourgeoisie democracy. These people cannot stand the fact that the working class has control over the direction and leadership of the party. There are four points that I would like to highlight about those who are aligned or will be leaders of the Congress of the (Rich) People. First the majority of them although they claim that they represent and seek to defend democracy, are anti-democracy themselves. They claim to be democrats how come they did not respect democratic elections? These people were defeated in Polokwane and they did not accept the leadership that won in December. My question is will they be able to accept the elections result next year? I think they will not accept them. They will complain and make claims that elections were not free and fair, that they were threatened by the party in government which is the African National Congress. This claim will not be new as the United Democratic Movement had claimed in the past. The second point is that these people do not or not want to understand the document titled ?Through the eye of the needle? when it says that to be an African National Congress leader in not an entitlement. People like Lekota and Shilowa have stayed in power for so long that they thought they have an absolute right and that they are entitled to be leaders of the ANC. This is characteristic of many of the heroes of liberation movements in Africa. Thirdly, these people are very much concerned not in serving the poorest of the poor people but of servicing their stomachs. As Smuts Ngonyama had said that he ?never joined the struggle to be poor.? Finally we see so-called intellectuals being involved with this new party, person like Barney Pityana who is an academic giant but a political dwarf. He once claimed that he was an ANC member without a valid membership. How can a person be a member without a valid membership? May be ?akabhadlanga? to quote Terror Lekota.
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