EFF CONDEMNS APPOINTMENT OF MARIA RAMOS TO THE INTERIM BOARD OF PIC.
Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
The EFF condemns the appointment of Maria Ramos to the interim board of the PIC and the exclusion of the Deputy Minister of Finance with the contempt it deserves.
We have long warned the people of South Africa that Zuma was just a small irritation and disturbance of the larger interest of white monopoly capital. Now that he is gone, white capital is no longer hiding its direct control of the state.
Ramos is the blue eyed child of South Africa's greedy, exploitative, racist, and historically murderous capital. She, Trevor Manuel, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Tito Mboweni are direct deployees of White Monopoly Capital; which is the number one enemy of the Emancipation aspirations of the poor, working class, and black people in general.
Maria Ramos was in the recent past a Board Member of Remgro, an investment holdings company chaired by Johan Rupert, which has shares in a lot of company that has the PIC as shareholders. Amongst these companies are RMH & FIRSTRAND, the owners of FNB and Wesbank; MEDICLINIC, eMedia which owns eTV and eNCA; DISTELL, RCL Foods and many other companies which the PIC has direct or indirect interests. Maria Ramos will unavoidably be conflicted and will certainly not defend the interests of Government Employees on the PIC Board, as she has direct relationships with the companies she served as a Director in.