By Moipone Malefane | Jul 11, 2017

ANC, where is your nonracialism policy? What happened to it? Is the ANC still a home for all races and all people of South Africa?

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I am asking because senior ANC leader Derek Hanekom was shouted down at the ANC national policy conference for holding a different view.

He attended discussions on economic transformation where the definition of “white monopoly capital” as well as questions about SA’s land issue were discussed, and the debate got heated.

President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa were in the same discussions, flooded by KwaZulu-Natal delegates and ANCYL members.

Hanekom was shouted down, with some in the commission attacking him based on his skin colour. Hanekom was even threatened with disciplinary measures for saying that land expropriation without compensation is “nonsense”. He may have used the wrong word but clearly he was trying to say that the policy does not make sense.

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He was told that he is white, as if his history in the ANC counts for nothing – so much for the ANC’s non-racialism policy.

People differ, especially during debates. But for ANC members to resort to colour does not reflect well on a party that claims it is a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic liberation movement.

Hanekom joined the ANC in 1980. He was involved in the party’s underground activities and was arrested and charged with treason under the apartheid government.

Already in the economic transformation commission, most displayed a hostile attitude towards Hanekom and former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan because the two have been vocal about their questioning of Zuma’s leadership.

Hanekom has even called for Zuma to step down in his presence in the ANC’s national executive committee meeting. He was called a boer in that meeting in front of Zuma and Ramaphosa and both leaders did not intervene.

Why is Hanekom being called names? In defence of a family that steals from black people and the poor? The family has corrupted the president, used his son and several ANC leaders at national and provincial government level.

This is the family that the national policy conference could not call out, rather calling for government to stop doing business with this particular family.

Hanekom, Gordhan, Lindiwe Sisulu, Blade Nzimande, to mention a few, are among several senior ANC leaders who are unhappy about Zuma and the Guptas’ relationship.

Now that we know that PR agency Bell Pottinger created the term “white monopoly capital” on behalf of the Guptas to stir racial tension in SA, it is important for the ANC to recommit itself to its ideals and principles. ANC leaders that have been pushing for monopoly capital to be seen as “white monopoly capital” should be ashamed.

All those that supported the “white monopoly capital” narrative are staunch supporters of Zuma. They are exposed .

It is a betrayal of the ANC.

 

http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2017/07/11/opinion-what-happened-to-anc-s-nonracialism-standpoint