JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA JULY 03: President Jacob Zuma during the African National Congress (ANC) 5th national policy conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on July 03, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference is a gathering of about 3500 delegates from branches across the country to discuss the partys policies going into the elective conference in December, where changes and new policies will be ratified. (Photo by Gallo Images / Beeld / Deaan Vivier)
Camp Zuma pushes back, insists ‘monopoly capital’ should be racially classified
Go figure.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA JULY 03: President Jacob Zuma during the African National Congress (ANC) 5th national policy conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on July 03, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference is a gathering of about 3500 delegates from branches across the country to discuss the partys policies going into the elective conference in December, where changes and new policies will be ratified. (Photo by Gallo Images / Beeld / Deaan Vivier)
While level-headed politicians and South Africans alike celebrated the ANC’s announcement that it has decided white monopoly capital will henceforth be addressed as monopoly capital, and not racialised; there are those within the ANC, all incidentally aligned to Jacob Zuma and his Gupta buddies – it was their PR firm Bell Pottinger that cooked up the white monopoly capital spin after all – who refuse to let it go.
On Wednesday Zuma’s cabal at the ANC National Policy Conference (NPC) disrupted proceedings, singing songs about white monopoly capital, as a means of protesting the majority decision to keep race out of it.
On Tuesday ANC NEC member Joel Netshitenzhe told the media that the party preferred the term monopoly capital after nine of the 11 ANC commissions within the ruling party decided it would be so.
Regardless, Zuma’s allies, led by deputy secretary general of the ANC Jesse Duarte, slammed Netshitenzhe for announcing the decision to the media, adding that they would make sure the decision as overturned so as to make bring race back into the rhetoric.
