TRANSFORMATION is integral to virtually all spheres of society including the political, economic, social and sports spheres. It’s like the devil: it gets blamed for everything.In the recent complaints about "state capture", the transformation ball gets kicked around. The infiltration of business interests to the level of reducing government executives to rubber-stamp appointments, is justified by the Zuma faction as promoting transformation.The Ramaphosa faction opposing this undue influence is accused of being influenced by "white monopoly capital" and, therefore, of undermining transformation efforts.Financial interests are at play on both sides, and transformation is a convenient and clever instrument to justify the unjustifiable.Given our past, transformation is a raw nerve and any attempt to criticise the so-called transformation agenda is branded racist, colonialist or counter-revolutionary.Some of these arguments have become downright bizarre, with absurd conspiracy theories ...
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