My one-time next-door neighbour Nick Binedell is best known as founder and leader of GIBS. For me, the widely travelled, much-read academic/businessman is, rather, a marvellous provider of context around much that has and is happening in my homeland.
Nowadays Binedell keeps his political affiliation to himself. But as an activist pre-1994, in the early period of ANC rule he was staunchly supportive of the movement. So, when he criticised the party it came from the right place and was invariably on the mark.
Among aspects of such conversations that shocked an outsider like me was Binedell’s evidence-based perspectives of how much the ANC had learnt from and then replicated its predecessor, SA’s Apartheid-driven National Party.
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I was reminded of this during yesterday’s must-watch interview (click here, or above to watch) with DA federal chair Helen Zille – particularly her explanation of how the ANC’s true powerbase vests in a shadowy “Cadre Deployment” committee.
This committee’s minutes, forced into the public domain through the efforts of the DA’s Dr Leon Schreiber and the courts, leaves little to the imagination. Zille, for instance, refers to a meeting where SA’s president Cyril Ramaphosa actually apologised for an appointment he made without first getting the committee’s permission.
The minutes show party-loyal cadres have been deployed into an astonishing 88 state-owned enterprises. Worse, the last two Constitutional Court judges are ANC’s deployment committee appointees – not the supposedly independent Judicial Services Commission which, Zille says, is a sham.
There is can no longer be any doubt that an ANC inner sanctum has captured the state and is responsible for running SA into the ground by rewarding loyal soldiers and cronies with national resources. A re-run of what the Broederbond did to the nation from 1948 to 1994. Sick, isn’t it?
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