SIBUSISO NGALWA | 17 July, 2011 01:07
Jacob Zuma. File picture.
Image by: Alan Eason
Blaming apartheid for the government's tardiness in implementing ANC promises has lost its currency, President Jacob Zuma says.
At the opening of the ANC's national executive committee lekgotla this week, Zuma called on his government to speed up the implementation of his party's promises to voters.
The lekgotla, which ends today, was attended by cabinet ministers, government official and tripartite alliance leaders.
An NEC member told the Sunday Times Zuma had said that "apartheid created this legacy, but as the ANC we've got promises and the pledges we made to the people. He was saying that everyone must get on with the programme".
This week's meeting also saw discussions on health, the New Growth Path plan produced by the Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, and a recently released National Planning Commission diagnostic report.
The lekgotla comes amid attacks on Zuma's government by the ANC Youth League and Cosatu over "weaknesses" in the growth path document, as well as the planning commission's diagnostic report.
Cosatu said Patel's growth plan was not worker friendly.
Last month youth league president Julius Malema said National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel's diagnostic report had failed to offer solutions to SA's problems.
Manuel and NEC member Cyril Ramaphosa spent some time on Friday explaining why the planning commission had compiled a report before examining solutions.
The NEC member said the pair gave a clear picture of which areas the government had to focus on.
"For instance, it mentions that 80% of black schools are dysfunctional, where these schools are and why they are collapsing ..." she said.
Last month, Zuma suggested the ANCYL had not read Manuel's report.
The NEC member said: "The president is not afraid of criticism, but he gets upset if the criticism is not properly directed, especially if people don't bother to read."
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Comments by Sonny
Zuma has run out of time - South African people have run out of patients!
This guy just won't deliver!!
Jungle Toi Toi is outdated!
ARAB MUSLIM APARTHEID
ReplyDeleteAll the while, the Arab world and the Muslim world are the largest practitioners of racial and religious apartheid. Where not one minority has equal rights with the governing power. Not to mention the still-practiced racist slavery on Asians and on blacks by Arabs. And the ethnic cleansing by the Arab world including by anti-Christian, anti-Jewish Arab-Islamic-Apartheid-Palestine. To quote from books: The Islamic world "the world's largest practitioner of both religious and gender apartheid." [Israel: And the Palestinian Nightmare - Page 158 - Ze'ev Shemer - 2010 - 244 pages] "The Islamic culture of "religious intolerance, economic backwardness, gender apartheid, muzzled press, militarism, terrorism." [A theory of international terrorism: understanding Islamic militancy - Page 153 - L. Ali Khan - 2006 - 371 pages] The "antisemitism of the Arab world and the Muslim world." The racist "long history of oppression against minorities in Arab countries." [U.S. news & world report: Volume 131, Issues 8-18 - U.S. News Pub. Corp., 2001 - Page 120] ["Beware Palestinian apartheid," 'Op-ed: Palestinian leader Abbas seeks to adopt racist policy based on ethnic cleansing of Jews.' Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, Ynet, 08.04.10] [The Real Apartheid State, by David Bedein, 2011]