Former president Thabo Mbeki says there is no national plan to address a number of social ills, including poverty, unemployment, criminality and inequality.
The attendees held the anti-apartheid struggle stalwart in high regard and called for her memory to be honoured in the best way possible.Tackling social ills, including unemployment and poverty, are ways in which Duarte must be honoured by the ANC, suggested Mbeki.
He said as a revolutionary, Duarte understood service to the people, respect for the truth and that the ANC’s existence was to serve people with no expectation of reward, except that of fulfilling people’s aspirations. Reflecting on SA’s state of affairs, the former president likened it to the “Arab Spring” uprisings which saw protests that ultimately resulted in regime changes in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
Mbeki said the uprisings took place because problems had been brewing under the surface, as is the case with SA. “ One of my fears is that one of these days it’s going to happen to us. You can’t have so many people unemployed, so many people poor, people faced with lawlessness, faced by leadership in which they see ANC people one after one another called corrupt. The retired former president said he has in recent months received invitations to visit provinces, an experience which he said brought him closer to ordinary members of the party.
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