LETTER: Lindiwe Sisulu specialises in the sale of snake oil
How does Sisulu explain that Zimbabweans, and many Africans to our north, are even poorer than black South Africans?
17 January 2022 - 16:17
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Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu. Picture: EUGENE COETZEE/THE HERALD
It surely cannot be that tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu actually believes what she writes. Her thesis is that if we alter the colonial, lickspittle (read: Western-inspired) constitution and judiciary to an Afrocentric version, millions of desperately poor people will be miraculously lifted out of poverty.
This is the magic wand theory of government. How does Sisulu explain that Zimbabweans, and indeed many Africans to our north, are even poorer than black South Africans? Why are there about 3-million African migrants working in SA? Do other African countries also suffer from colonial constitutions and mentally colonised judges?
No, Sisulu's thesis is nothing but a snake-oil remedy designed to appeal to our desperate poor, and sweep her to power.
Willem Cronje
Cape Town
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LETTER: Lindiwe Sisulu specialises in the sale of snake oil
How does Sisulu explain that Zimbabweans, and many Africans to our north, are even poorer than black South Africans?
It surely cannot be that tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu actually believes what she writes. Her thesis is that if we alter the colonial, lickspittle (read: Western-inspired) constitution and judiciary to an Afrocentric version, millions of desperately poor people will be miraculously lifted out of poverty.
This is the magic wand theory of government. How does Sisulu explain that Zimbabweans, and indeed many Africans to our north, are even poorer than black South Africans? Why are there about 3-million African migrants working in SA? Do other African countries also suffer from colonial constitutions and mentally colonised judges?
No, Sisulu's thesis is nothing but a snake-oil remedy designed to appeal to our desperate poor, and sweep her to power.
Willem Cronje
Cape Town
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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