#StateCapture: Feel It, It Is Here
17 March 2016
Equal Education (EE) regards the state capture of South Africa as nothing less than a mortal threat to democracy.
As an organisation waging struggle to end racism and inequality we know that prospects for a progressive or revolutionary transformation of society die with state capture. It is the working class and the unemployed, the poor and the historically looted – the black majority – who are attacked and further looted when our democratic state is put into the top pocket of a few rich people. Instead of the state being a thin shield against a rapacious exploiting class – a vehicle for social security, healthcare, education, infrastructure and crime prevention – it becomes yet another sword to wound and plunder.
We recognise the courageous truth telling of Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas:
“Members of the Gupta family offered me the position of Minister of Finance to replace then- Minister Nene. I rejected this out of hand. The basis of my rejection of their offer is that it makes a mockery of our hard earned democracy, the trust of our people and no one apart from the President of the Republic appoints ministers.”