Jealousy behind nationalising calls, says ANC I-Net Bridge and Sapa CALLS to nationalise the personal wealth of BEE tycoons Tokyo Sexwale and Patrice Motsepe were based on jealousy, according to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe.
“It’s talking to the resentment we have among ourselves as black people. If anybody progresses we feel very jealous and we resent their success,” Mantashe told a media briefing at Luthuli House in Johannesburg. The National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) has called for nationalisation of the wealth of South Africa’s richest man, Motsepe, and that of ANC struggle hero, Tokyo Sexwale. Both have benefited from government’s black economic empowerment policies. “We should deal with that [the jealousy] and not beat about the bush as if it’s a nationalisation debate. It is not a nationalisation debate that is raised by Numsa,” Mantashe said. He described it as a “strange phenomenon”, since in the recently published top 100 richest South Africans, there were only 20 blacks. Having the state take the wealth of these 20 would hamper transformation. Mantashe condemned the public attack on the ANC’s treasurer general Mathews Phosa by the Gauteng Young Communist League. “We must emphasise that personal attacks and vilifications are the surest way of derailing and killing any debate.” The league had criticised Phosa for saying that mines in the country would not placed under the state’s control. Mantashe said such personal attacks weakened the alliance between the ANC, Cosatu and the SACP. Attacks on individuals by the structures in the alliance would be discussed in bilateral meetings next week. Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel was also personally lambasted by the Congress of SA Trade Unions after he released a Green Paper on national planning. “We think it’s a destructive way of dealing with each other, it is not helping our cause, it’s actually weakening the alliance. “We are talking of a principle here that it doesn’t matter who you are talking to, once you begin to be personally attacking a person or vilifying a person... actually you are not inviting that person for a discussion or a debate, you are killing it,” Mantashe said. This also applied to people outside the ruling alliance. Last night, South African deputy president, Kgalena Motlanthe says that SA's mining sector "should take comfort that there are no immediate plans from the state to nationalise mines". Speaking at the Chamber of Mines AGM dinner, Motlanthe said for some time there had been concerns that the industry had not transformed as quickly or sufficiently as it could. "It is these concerns that have fuelled a call for nationalisation of mines from some quarters of our society," said Motlanthe. "Whilst this healthy debate continues, the sector should take comfort in knowing that there are no immediate plans from the state to nationalise the mines. Public discourse should be separated from public policy. The latter is an outcome of extensive multi-sectoral consultation within http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=85879 -- It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want to apologise and the wrong sort take advantage of an apology backs. - Karl Marx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
