klipgeit
04-17-2010, 08:33 AM
Only a kaffir knows how to double speak
GWEDE Mantashe, the ANC’s secretary general, has just made an extraordinary statement on corruption in a speech in Johannesburg.
The gist of it appears to be summarised in this sentence: “…What we inherited actually corrupted us and therefore we are actually managing a corrupt system and a wrong value system.
More:
“…The new order [after 1994]… inherited a well entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society as a whole.”
Of course none of us should forget that the Apartheid government was corrupt – perhaps even massively corrupt – as there were no checks and balances or independent watchdog institutions to catch them out.
But to claim that 16 years after that pernicious system was thrown out, you are still held in its mesmerising thrall is a little rum, to put it mildly.
What is more correct is that there was a similiar culture of self-enrichment already in place within the new elite. It didn’t take long for it to expand its reach from the party to the state.
etc etc here
http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/hartley/2010/04/16/mantashes-extraordinary-statement-on-corruption/
GWEDE Mantashe, the ANC’s secretary general, has just made an extraordinary statement on corruption in a speech in Johannesburg.
The gist of it appears to be summarised in this sentence: “…What we inherited actually corrupted us and therefore we are actually managing a corrupt system and a wrong value system.
More:
“…The new order [after 1994]… inherited a well entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society as a whole.”
Of course none of us should forget that the Apartheid government was corrupt – perhaps even massively corrupt – as there were no checks and balances or independent watchdog institutions to catch them out.
But to claim that 16 years after that pernicious system was thrown out, you are still held in its mesmerising thrall is a little rum, to put it mildly.
What is more correct is that there was a similiar culture of self-enrichment already in place within the new elite. It didn’t take long for it to expand its reach from the party to the state.
etc etc here
http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/hartley/2010/04/16/mantashes-extraordinary-statement-on-corruption/