Cde Rodney
Whilst I welcome your revolutionary spirit, I beg to differ with your characterisation of the Apartheid Regime under the National Party as "socialist". The Apartheid political economy was skewed in favour of the minority at the expense of the majority. Having been dispossessed of their land, black people (mainly Africans) were forced to provide cheap labour and means of production (in the form of land). SA was conquered by force and in 1948 the NP continued to rule by force, ANC (Strategy and tactics, Morogoro) observed that "At moments when the white autocracy feels itself threatened, it does not hesitate to use guns". The economic resources including those of the then State Owned Assets you have just mentioned were used for this purpose and it is politically inaccurate to characterise that as "socialist". ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rodney pheto Sent: 08 July 2009 11:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] the NP govt was more socialist than the ANC govt. allow me to take you back to the heydays of apartheid.under the national party RSA had no parastatals,it had 100% govt run institutions such as nursing and teachers colleges,sasol,railway,harbours/ports,airways(saa),eskom,saambou and volkskas banks not to mention numerous boards such as the maize,banana,sugar which had broederbond members who were unfortunately serving the interests of the afrikaner nation only.that was almost pure socialism.today all that has a black ceo is a failure because it is serving the interest of a few black elite and the govt has a partial stake in it,i'm talking TELKOM,SAA,ESKOM,SABC,TRANSNET/SPOORNET and VARIOUS MUNICIPALITIES.during a lecture that Comrade Motlanthe gave in Sancti Spiritus,Cuba in june 2006(Comrades David Makhura,Julius Malema and other ANCYL,ANCWL comrades were there too),he told us that a poor man had recently complained to him that under national party rule,they would stand outside a factory and umlungu would open a gate and say you have all been hired as permanent workers,not casual labourers.but now under Congolose the factories are closing down and those still operating have big signs written No work. when did it all go wrong? when,under Mbeki the ANC govt's policies read as if they were formulated in washington dc under the supervision of IMF and the World Bank. Comrade JM is right with the mines.they must be nationalised as from tomorrow.in venezuela,president hugo chavez did the same with the mines and oil companies.the problem is that we have a govt in office,not in power. young lions of south africa,i'm looking forward to be ruled by you.Julius,Buti,Castro i'm refering to you comrades.let's us not expect too much from UMsholozi because we know the challenges he faced personally when he was out of govt for 4 years. phambili ngomzabalazo. socialism now.no excuses ###################################################################### Attention: This message is intended for the exclusive use of the named addressees hereof and may contain information that is privileged or confidential or otherwise restricted from disclosure. If you are not the named addressee, you are not authorised to read, use, transmit, print, retain, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please notify me immediately by e-mail, discard any paper copies and delete all electronic files of the message. ###################################################################### --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
