Jonas warns ANC: 'We are losing credibility day by day'
'Policy positions are seen as proxies for factions‚ which themselves are cast as representatives of competing elites. No wonder we are losing credibility day by day'
Former deputy minister of finance Mcebisi Jonas has warned against the politics of populism. He was speaking at the annual Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) lecture held at the University of Johannesburg on Tuesday night on the topic of radical economic transformation and what it means. "The reality is that it is becoming ever more difficult to subject radical economic transformation to ... democratic‚ public reasoning‚" he said. "Policy positions are seen as proxies for factions‚ which themselves are cast as representatives of competing elites. No wonder we are losing credibility day by day‚" Jonas said.
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