NEW DIRECTION
NATASHA MARRIAN: Zuma’s radical economic transplantation
The South African Communist Party (SACP) is finding its voice in a spectacular way. Its stance after it emerged from its central committee at the weekend on the Zuma-led administration’s sudden commitment to radical economic transformation was instructive. While the need for economic transformation is not in doubt, Zuma’s sudden lurch in this direction mere months before his term as ANC president ends smacks of opportunism and hypocrisy, particularly because it was never given real content after it was passed as a resolution in Mangaung. The question is whether this administration can be relied upon to bring about the structural and systemic change required to transform the economy and deal with inequality. A glance at recent events shows it cannot. Such change was promised in Polokwane, when Zuma took over, but those who handed him the post soon realised it wasn’t to be. In fact, there were attempts to quash the push for change through the suppression of then ANC Youth League presi...
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