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Original Post Date: 2004-01-19 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/19/2004 9:52:24 AM
Black Politician: S.Africa will become a One Party State
[Note. Buthelezi is pro-Western. What he says is true. His observations and opinions are generally on the money. But he will just be ignored. Nobody listens to him anyway. Jan]
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday warned about the emergence of an “embryonic, one-party state” in South Africa and said the governing ANC had failed to meet the challenges necessary to place the country on a path to success and prosperity.
Launching his party’s election manifesto in the IFP stronghold of Lindelani, north of Durban, Buthelezi said the ANC was not only extending its power within the political system, but controlling ever-increasing segments of economy, culture and social activities. He spoke strongly about the need to deal with HIV/Aids, unemployment, crime and the economy.
Amid a carnival atmosphere, he outlined plans to grow the economy, deal with crime, attack poverty and create jobs.
He painted two pictures, one of hope, saying that SA could be a great country if good policies were implemented.
‘We have fought very hard to give everyone the right to vote’
But he also painted a gloomy picture of missed opportunities. He said the ANC had failed to attend to the scourge of HIV/Aids, resulting in hundreds of deaths. It had also failed to attract sufficient foreign investment.
“We believe South Africa can and must be better. If any country has the potential to be the 21st century success story and a dynamic player in the global economy, it is South Africa,” he said.
The country’s democracy had begun to mature and the nation was getting stronger because it was no longer the polecat of the international community, he said.
“Reconciliation and peace have flourished. Who would have said 10 years ago that we would have a situation where there is almost no violence in KZN?” he said.
However, he also tore into the ANC, identifying two major areas where it had failed South Africans – HIV/Aids and unemployment.
“Around 10 percent of our citizens are HIV positive and nearly 2 000 people are infected every day.”
“The official figure for unemployment is around the 30 percent mark, a similar level experienced by the United States in the Great Depression,” he said.
While this situation had not been created by the government, Buthelezi said its response to these problems had been “woefully inadequate” and had made them worse.
“And, arguably, in the case of its response to the HIV/Aids epidemic, bordered on criminal neglect,” he said, adding that, as a minister who had served in the ANC-led government since 1994, he had found it difficult to explain to people why inequality had widened since “uhuru”, with the poor becoming poorer.
His party had put together a manifesto that called for a “fresh approach.” This manifesto was a “detailed plan of action” with commonsense proposals to deal with HIV/Aids, unemployment, corruption and poverty.
“Our approach is a joined-up one. We say if the economy is freed and growth is increased to about six percent, employment opportunities will be created. This will reduce the main cause of crime, despair and deprivation. And the gap between the richest and the poorest will be closed,” he said.
Buthelezi said the ANC should be stopped from getting a two-thirds majority. It should not be given a mandate to do again what it had done in the past five years.
“It is essential that South African people realise they hold power in their hands to hire and fire any government they wish… and to decide who shall be the next president of South Africa.
“We have fought very hard to give everyone the right to vote. The right to vote carries with it the obligation to think about which party can best serve the interests of South Africa and ensure for all of us a better future,” he said. – Political Staff
This article was originally published on page 1 of The Mercury on January 19, 2004
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&ar…br>