JACOB ZUMA: My radical plan for South Africa's economy
'Twenty two years into our freedom and democracy‚ the majority of black people are still economically disempowered. They are dissatisfied with the economic gains from liberation'
This is an extract from President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address on February 9 2017 in which he outlined his plan for 'radical economic transformation' Political freedom alone is incomplete without economic emancipation. Oliver Tambo spoke clearly about this mission at an SACP anniversary meeting in London in 1981. He said: “The objective of our struggle in South Africa‚ as set out in the Freedom Charter‚ encompasses economic emancipation. It is inconceivable for liberation to have meaning without a return of the wealth of the country to the people as a whole. “To allow the existing economic forces to retain their interests intact is to feed the roots of racial supremacy and exploitation‚ and does not represent even the shadow of liberation. “It is therefore a fundamental feature of our strategy that victory must embrace more than formal political democracy; and our drive towards national emancipation must include economic emancipation.” What do we mean by radical socio-...
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