Red Alert: Liberals as eternal political hypocrites
Liberalism in general and its different South African shades has only been consistent on one and only one thing, political hypocrisy. Otherwise how does explain the fact that the DA has come out with guns blazing against e-tolling in Gauteng (which the SACP incidentally also has problems with) whilst at the same time imposing its own toll gates on Chapman`s peak in Cape Town.
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the media completely ignored the SACP Central Committee statement over the weekend when it pointed this out, since, for all intents and purposes, mainstream and commercial media in South Africa, with few exceptions, has become the mouthpiece of especially post 1994 (white) liberalism.
Liberalism and political hypocrisy have a long history in South Africa. The very same liberalism in our country had over decades prior to 1994 preached `freedom` whilst strenuously opposing one person one vote as the basis of genuine democracy in our country. Instead, whilst they pretended to oppose apartheid (but privately praying for the NP to win election after election), they only argued for a qualified franchise, that only educated blacks (`because they are civilized like us`), should be given a limited vote whilst not tampering with white minority rule and power.
For instance at the height of the struggles against the criminal apartheid regime, right into the negotiations of the early 1990s, the Democratic Party, the predecessor to the DA and many of its fellow travellers, never advanced a principled stance for majority rule based on one person one vote. Instead majority rule, as enshrined in our constitution today, was won by the liberation movement, using a combination of armed and mass struggles as well as the moral superiority of its struggle.
When Dr Pieter Mulder made extremely provocative statements about blacks and land ownership in our country, this has been met by a very loud silence from the liberals because Mulder has 'spoken for us all'!! From the hordes of the mushrooming liberal NGOs, there are no talks or even whispers of going to the Equality Court or the Human Rights Commission, as ordinarily would have been the case had similar statements been made about whites. There are no parliamentary motions or call for special debates or 'points of order' and warnings of unparliamentary language, had it been the other way round!