Premium – Jeffery’s Countdown to Socialism: plotting ANC’s catastrophic course
By Dave Steward, chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation
The ship of state is dead in the water. The engines cannot provide energy to keep the lights on; the machinery is broken; the officers and crew regularly help themselves to the ship's provisions. On the bridge, Captain Ramaphosa keeps watch, complaining about the difficulty of his job, and assuring everybody, with diminishing conviction, that all is well.
However, instead of repairing the engines and restoring discipline; instead of steering toward the world's great trade routes, the captain is remorselessly holding his course toward the rocks. It is at this critical time that he has decided, incomprehensibly, to double down on initiatives that could wreck the ship once and for all.
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