The Policy Conference of the ANC Will Never Produce Any Policy for the Betterment of the Lives of Black People
Citizens of this country must be told that the ANC policy conference of this year or any other year will never produce policies that can transform lives of Black people. This is largely because the ANC, from its inception, has never been geared towards serving interests of Black people.
The hundred years of the ANC reflect an organization with leaders with hats in their hands. ANC, historically, chose a notion of multi-racialism as an escape route aimed at appeasing whites to the detriment of Blacks whose land was stolen, whose dignity was thwarted, whose live stocks were usurped. ANC leaders with hats in their hands knew this and had no interest in changing it, so is President Jacob Zuma and ANC today.
From exile, ANC came followed by complaints of torture of its own members. If what we read in Mwezi Twala's Imbokodois anything to go by, we can conclude that ANC is an organization from hell brought to this earth to frustrate Black people.
Our recent memory of the ANC is that of an organization that fought any organization of Black people in Black townships; an organization that burnt Blacks who never agreed with it. ANC burnt not only houses of Blacks, but their history. Today, the history written is that of the ANC.
What policy can ANC come up with to transform our lives as Blacks if the Constitution - the basis for the implementation of all policies - is anti-Blacks? It is this Constitution that continues to squash many Blacks into Bantustans (now called provinces); it is this Constitution that makes it impossible for Blacks to get access to the land they so fought for; this Constitution makes it so impossible for communities at ward level to get services from government because the service delivery process is deliberately made to be long and frustrating through a bureaucratic staircase. This bureaucratic staircase is deliberately meant to expose as many members of the ANC elite to looting, thus frustrating patience of Blacks, whom the ANC thinks it owns.
What policies can ANC deliver for the betterment of the lives of Blacks when ANC failed to improve education system, employment opportunities and dignity for Blacks in this country?
ANC championed policies that promoted inequality in the land (e.g. Deployment and BBEEE policies). There is an unwritten separate development policy where the poor Blacks should remain poor while white suburbia remains rich. Black members of the ANC elite, who have internalised the notion that they are white, do all in their power to maintain the status quo.
Under apartheid we knew that policies were anti-Blacks and the system then had no intentions of hiding that. ANC today hides the fact that the economy will continue to be in the hands of multinationals and white males. This will remain like this because the ANC benefits from the trickle down as its elite continues to get few shares and seats in this and that board.
ANC is a sell out organization whose main interest is to see us Blacks continuously dependent on others for our lives. ANC is an extension of the machine that is crushing Black people to submission. ANC is worse that the oppressive Nationalist Party (the party that is now buried in the ANC). What policies this ANC can ever produce that could ever go against what it is about? As such, what will the current policy conference achieve that ANC dismally failed to achieve in the past 18 years?
It is time for Blacks to stand up and wage a Second Transition whose primary focus would be about dignity for Blacks through return of the land and its resources. We need to wage a struggle for a total control of our destiny without trips to British Queen. ANC cannot be part of this struggle, but a hindrance. ANC must go if Second Transition is to be attained!
Statement issued by Funani ka Ntontela, AZAPO Communication Desk, June 26 2012
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