FW De Klerk at it Again-YCL
"Some of the black blood spilled of the 44 workers in Lonmin/Marikana are not as a result of contemporary problems, but are as a result of your policies, your dirty negotiations tactics and the guarantees you secured for white male business people." National Secretary of the YCLSA, Buti Manamela said.
07 September 2012
The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] notes and condemns with the contempt it deserves the attempt by FW De Klerk to misdirect attention from the real problems of our economy, which is the concentrated ownership by the few (white minority capital), and focuses on attacking trade-unionism and COSATU in particular.
Expressing crocodile tears for the unemployed, FW De Klerk is quoted as saying that the "the main inequality divide in South Africa is no longer between blacks and whites, but between unionised and employed workers on the one hand, and unemployed on the other..."
The fact is, Mr. De Klerk, the majority of those ‘unionised and employed' together with the ‘unemployed' are black and dependent on quality jobs from employers whose majority you guaranteed to be white during the negotiations.
"The question of race in the ownership of the land, the mines, manufacturing, finance and agriculture remains dominant. That many black South Africans, despite the strides made by Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment, are still seekers of jobs instead of creators of jobs is as a result of you and your predecessors doing." Manamela said
Your statement echo your sentiments in the 90's when apartheid sponsored low-intensity war took shape far from white surbabia and in the townships, and you referred to it as ‘black on black violence'.
Some of the black blood spilled of the 44 workers in Lonmin/Marikana are not as a result of contemporary problems, but are as a result of your policies, your dirty negotiations tactics and the guarantees you secured for white male business people.
"We agree with you that there is a catastrophic failure of our education system. This is partly due to the ANC government's attempt to reverse the legacies of your past." Manamela said.
But still, that catastrophe is witnessed more by the black child whom you ensured gets one-hundredth of the resources as compared to what you invested in the white child, their infrastructure and the quality of their education.
The wealth that has privately been accumulated has continued to pour solely into the education of the white child through exorbitant private and public school fees and biased funding hidden under corporate social responsibility.
Your most recent grandstanding and cheap moral authority is becoming nauseating, you are the last of the living apartheid heads of state, and the best you can do for now is shoulder the shame of what your system has done for this country, for both black and white people.
Please do not make matters any worse by further polarising this country. We are trying to fix your mess.
Statement issued by Mangaliso Stalin Khonza, National Spokesperson, Young Communist League of SA, September 7 2012
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