LETTER: Why SA should not abandon its constitutional democracy
According to Mzwanele Manyi, SA must abandon its Constitution and embrace a majoritarian parliamentary system in order to address the socio-economic challenges besetting our country. These comments were made by Manyi, who is notorious for declaring that there were too many coloureds in the Western Cape and must therefore seek jobs in other provinces, at a meeting of the Progressive Professionals Forum, following its national executive committee meeting held in KwaZulu-Natal, last week (The Mercury, January 25 2017). He furthermore asserted that the concept of a constitutional democracy was the ploy of the Broederbond, designed to ensure that the government’s intervention was somewhat limited in addressing the country’s structural challenges. Although Manyi does not explain exactly what a majoritarian parliamentary democracy entails, it can be presumed he means a system in which Parliament is sovereign and, as a result, the majority party, which would be the ANC, would use its majori...
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