NEW REALITY:
Gordhan should sever old political ties
Yusuf Cachalia was a modern-day social liberal and I believe he would have been appalled by the rampant kleptocracy of the ANC
In 2009, Pravin Gordhan made clear his stance. He said he would be driven by "reality" and not ideology; he championed the value of being "pragmatic" and "sensible". He went on to say that he had aligned himself with the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1970s and explored Marxist methodology as a set of humane values and a way of achieving greater social justice. That he has continued, in the face of internal ostracisation, to be loyal to the ANC in the hope that he might help transform it is indicative of a lingering inability to act in line with the logical continuum of the views he shared in 2009. It is hard to cut the umbilical cord. It’s hard to move beyond ideology and hard to find another set of values that underpin and steer your pragmatism and sensibility. I should know. Let me use the example of my father to explain, with reference to members of the SACP, who have shifted uneasily in their seats and signalled a Gordhan-like dissatisfaction with the status quo in...
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