South Africans from all walks of life have some advice for the delegates at the ANC elective conference.
Although this is an ANC conference, the decisions reached will affect all South Africans. We hope conference delegates will consider this input in their deliberations.People of SA are gripped with great angst about the future of their country. There are multiple crises that constrain the development potential of our country. I wish to list some of these priorities for your consideration: the economy and jobs, corruption, crime and violence, cost of living, energy security and social security.
I have no doubt that if you take gambles this weekend, South Africans will look beyond the ANC towards 2024. While you tear the movement of Oliver Tambo apart, the citizens will refuse for you to tear the country apart along with it.Before you are two choices. One responds to South Africans’ increasingly desperate pleas about their material conditions. The other advances your own partisan party-political aspirations. I hope that you know which is the right one to make.
We hope too, that this conference will shed the ANC’s ambivalence to the judiciary and that it will come out in full defence of the guardians of our constitutional democracy. Courts and governments are designed not as rivals but companions in the achievement of our constitutional ideals. Where government seeks to achieve those goals, courts will only intervene where it strays beyond its limits.
Five years ... By the time we get to 2027 the world will be facing even greater challenges and crises than we do even during these very difficult times. In particular the climate crisis and global warming, which is already linked to 5-million deaths a year internationally, will be adversely influencing political stability, mass migrations, health and human rights — including here in SA. It’s going to be a rough world to be poor in.
People across the world are desperately in need of the type of visionary, moral and ethical leadership the ANC was once respected for! It’s in your power to rise to the challenge again ... or not.Dear ANC DelegatesSupport for the ruling party has been in deep decline since the first democratic election in 1994. The political climate is probably best described as toxic and fraught with deep divisions within and across political parties.
Fast forward to today, SA is a country with deep inequalities which resemble two nations in one. One that has a majority of the wealth apportioned to a minority of the population and another which is extremely poor and African in the majority. Good luck to the delegates. Remember that history has no blank pages. I wish you well in your robust engagement. May the ANC live long. Amandla!As you all gather for the next few days somewhere in and around Nasrec, please do keep in mind that the leather jackets most of you will be wearing will generate enough electricity to get Soweto out of Stage 6 to Stage 1 or 2 of load-shedding.
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