BOOK REVIEW: Pallo Jordan urges BEE winners to plough back their gains
LETTERS TO MY COMRADES – Interventions & Excursions Z Pallo Jordaan Jacana I recently saw former public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi at Exclusive Books, frantically looking for former ANC leader Pallo Jordan’s book Letters to My Comrades. Unfortunately, it was sold out and she would not be consoled with another book. This encounter was instructive about how Jordan is still highly regarded within the ANC after his retirement from public life. In 2015, Jordan resigned from Parliament and other leadership positions in the ANC, including the national executive committee (NEC), after it emerged that he did not have the doctorate that he had claimed to have. He has since been out of politics, living a quiet life in Cape Town, his home city. A person in his position would have to work extremely hard to restore public confidence in him as an intellectual and a man of principle. But he seems not to have had to go that extra mile. In Letters to My Comrades, he...
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