Let’s get back to the values of the constitution
The ANC’s distortion of the race issue is causing harm to the most vulnerable citizens
How, in a society founded on nonracialism, is it possible to make the race of job seekers relevant to their appointment? What empirical evidence is there to suggest that race can be used as a surrogate for disadvantage a quarter of a century into supposed nonracialism? Why are cadre deployment, “representivity” and race-based affirmative action allowed at all in SA today?
Political parties, parliament and civil society have grappled with these questions within the framework of a supreme law that spells out that laws and conduct inconsistent with the constitution are invalid. Yet the ANC, in its core strategy and tactics, does not really set much store by the values of the constitution. It prefers the tenets of its national democratic revolution, in terms of which it seeks to attain hegemonic control of all the levers of power in society. ..
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