Posted on 01/24/2009 6:08:19 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
SOUTH AFRICA’S ruling African National Congress (ANC) has veered sharply to the left and will go into elections, expected to be held in April, with a manifesto largely dictated by the country’s Communist party, according to senior party officials.
Under Jacob Zuma, its new leader, it has quietly adopted a radical platform of social policies which the business community claim are unaffordable.
The ANC already promises a free allowance of water and electricity to all and has introduced the largest welfare state ever seen in a developing country....
Under the influence of its firebrand new secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, a former leader of the mine-workers’ union and chairman of the South African Communist party, it is adopting policies and rhetoric based on left-wing states such as Cuba and Venezuela. ....
Under his influence the ANC is expected to propose, in its as yet unpublished manifesto, the introduction of universal health insurance, free education, the extension of child allowances to all children up to the age of 18, new maternity grants, wage subsidies, an old age savings scheme, subsidised housing for farm workers and military veterans, free food handouts to all poor families, an expanded public housing programme and the “transformation” of the private sector through the “development of cooperative financial institutions”. ....
Mantashe stands for the absolute supremacy of party over government. When black judges failed to find for the ANC in an important court case, he railed against them as “counter-revolutionaries” and “apartheid apologists”. He has already announced that after the election “we [the party] will sack any ministers who do not perform”.
The ANC programme calls for the assertion of party control over the central bank, with its interest rates set in line with social needs rather than for the control of inflation, as in the past.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Well,.. South Africa will soon be like Zimbabwe; Inflation at 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent - 65 followed by 107 zeros. “Prices doubling every
24 hours. “Shops have not accepting local currency.”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What a bunch of morons.
Don’t they know that basing policies on California’s model will fail?
Did anyone think it wouldn’t come to this? Sadly, this might be a preview of what’s in store for this country in about 100 years or so.
Did anyone think it wouldn’t come to this? Sadly, this might be a preview of what’s in store for this country in about 100 years or so.
Obamugabe wants that here,too!.........
In about 100 years or so?.....try 100 days...........
I know.
It works for the leaders. They’re driving around in fancy cars with armed guards to keep the riffraff out. It’s the same tactic used to get Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California in the shape they’re in. Promise people with no understanding of economics or money management free stuff. Steal stuff from the job creators to pay for it. When people start going out of business, raise taxes on the remaining businesses. When the whole thing collapses, keep making promises and pick over the bones.
Crap, if they go through with all that, they’ll look like the United States in 10 years.
SCARY!
I predict that with a huge (D) majority in both houses, by the end of Obamama’s term, you and I will not recognize this country. It will be the greatest fall since Rome was sacked by the Vandals........
Remember your Shakespeare.
To be or not to be, that is the question..........
I always thought of the ANC as pretty much communist. This to me is just degrees of insanity already in place.
I’m confused, here. The ANC is communist. What is to the left of that?
Zimbabwe part deux.
I doubt it. Political systems in collapse often go much faster than that.
It's the difference between:
- on the edge of the cliff- gone over the cliff
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