LETTER: No shock state capture took place
ANC’s national democratic revolution demands that the party attains, and then increases, its control over the state
02 May 2021 - 19:39
During his two-day appearance before the Zondo commission President Cyril Ramaphosa talked about “lapses” and “delays” when it came to accounting for corruption and state capture — softening, smokescreen words at best.
It was not due to a failure of the ANC’s ideology and policies — cadre deployment chief among them — that state capture took place. Rather it is a necessary feature of any ideology that demands an increased, ever-more-powerful role for the government. In the SA context this has come at the ultimate cost of low-income and poor citizens...
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