PRETORIA, SOUTPH AFRICA MAY 10: ANC veteran; Mathews Phosa outside the North Gauteng High Court during the hearing of a civil claim case between Phosa and David Mabuza on May 10, 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa. Mabuza, the premier of Mpumalanga announced earlier this year that he planned to institute a R10 million defamation […]
PRETORIA, SOUTPH AFRICA MAY 10: ANC veteran; Mathews Phosa outside the North Gauteng High Court during the hearing of a civil claim case between Phosa and David Mabuza on May 10, 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa. Mabuza, the premier of Mpumalanga announced earlier this year that he planned to institute a R10 million defamation […]
It’s a phrase that Jacob Zuma has enjoyed using recently – an almost certainly empty promise from the President – that the economy will undergo a facelift in order to benefit the poor.
According to ANC MP Mathews Phosa though, this is a Gupta-invented term that they paid Bell Pottinger to create and publicise.
White Monopoly Capital
He was addressing the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut (Afrikaans Trade Institute) on Wednesday and deemed ‘radical economic transformation’ as another racist narrative – He believes it’s a tool to whip up racial tension:
“Bell Pottinger and the Guptas – Those two are ideal bed-mates who belong together, just not in South Africa. They can take their deeply divisive racist phrases and money elsewhere. I, for one, would be happy to see them go at the first opportunity.
“There is no such thing as radical economic transformation. Many countries and politicians have tried to change the natural dynamics of the economy, all of them have failed.”
Read: Mathews Phosa slams Zuma and his cronies as ‘economic rapists’
Phosa’s position on radical economic transformation echoes the concerns raised surrounding ‘white monopoly capital’ – the divisive term coined by BP and the Guptas to try and fight the state capture allegations.
ANC December Electives
The ANC MP also issued a rallying cry to his fellow parliamentarians to oust the leadership who have ‘stuffed their pockets with dirty cash’:
“The ANC has a chance in December this year to part with a leadership that has forgotten who elected them and that their job is to fight poverty through the mechanism of a vibrant and strong economy.”
“I unashamedly call on my party to elect leaders who do not stuff their pockets full of dirty money, but those – and they are still there in our party – who understand that we should be servants of those who look to us for bread on their table and a roof over their heads.”
Phosa also commented on the upcoming vote of no confidence against JZ, and the political infighting the ballot has caused. He says that the attempts to ‘muzzle free speech’ are a political sin and the opposite to what the ANC stands for.
Only Jacob Zuma matters to Jacob Zuma and his supporters.
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