CYRIL RAMAPHOSA'S RESPONSE TO FW DE KLERK'S SPEECH OF 31 JANUARY ON THE NEED FOR REAL TRANSFORMATION
I welcome Cyril Ramaphosa's response to my speech of 31 January, which dealt, among other topics, with the ANC's approach to transformation - as embodied in its National Democratic Revolution (NDR) (see here).
Mr Ramaphosa was unhappy that I questioned the NDR's constitutionality and claimed that "In both word and deed, the ANC has placed the Constitution at the centre of its vision for a new South Africa." However, the NDR, and not the Constitution, is at the centre of the ANC's vision - and it is profoundly unconstitutional.
It calls for 'democratic forces' (i.e. the ANC) to control the "levers of state power" including "the public service, the security forces, the judiciary, and the public broadcaster." The Constitution requires these institutions - and especially the judiciary - to be impartial.
The NDR's core practice of cadre deployment has been declared unconstitutional by our courts.
The NDR prioritisation of "black people in general, and Africans in particular and its assertion of "African hegemony in the context of a multi-cultural and non-racial society" breach the fundamental values of equality and non-racialism.