Cape Freedom

Die Tweede Nuwe Jaar used to be the Cape equivalent of the Rio Carneval and should be developed/promoted/encouraged/celebrated !

 crazy punks you aint gettin none of dat  you all confused and m sure malema will deal with all of you who are confused

 Cape Party faired rather well and better than expected,a number of new wards also got candidate  representative and large amounts of people in the queues at the polling stations asked for more information in future. Given a situation of anxious and afraid voters who flocked together under the same objective to get rid of the ANC most minorites were wiped out by DA anyway so we can say we are impressed by a hard fight
I noted atleast we came 5th out of very numerous in our ward 54 .we were only beaten by DA 9972 ANC 743 COPE 66 and ACDP 42 of 10941 who did vote (51 were spoiled) and 16921 were registered we had 36 not voted .What I wonder is how do 4306 people in this group show for their vote and how many were in Stellenbosch unable to vote too where I believe we may have faired rather well. We got nailed by DA as most minorities did – what do we do now? Fight harder play harder learned some lessons,identified where and how we could have done better and dont go leftwing yet !

John, how many people did vote for Cape Party ?

You from da ANC creshh ???? Go figure !

A grand total of 3298 people voted for the Cape Party in the Western Cape out of a grand total of over 2 million voters.

The DA did not nail smaller parties, they voters did. There is no need for smaller parties like the Cape Party and their policies that tantamount to racism.

The ANC is just as racist as the old NP.  Race politics is the only ANC strategy because it can offer nothing else to draw support. Everybody knows it. Nothing to it.

Firstly the Cape Party is multicultural.
Secondly the SA constitution makes provision for independence for  groups/areas under certain conditions.
Thirdly most Capetowns voted  DA to finally get rid of the ANC. Future elections will show more diversity as the ANC threat is eliminated and people start to focus on their needs instead of external threads.

ha ha haaaaaa 3298 votes! That much!!

I think more people voted for the Dagga Party than the two bit piss pot Cape party.

Sipho, you might be correct but if the DA fails to deliver, it might well be the Cape Party that becomes the vehicle for disenfranchised and pissed off natives of the Cape.

MOELETSI MBEKI: Wealth creation
Only a matter of time before the hand grenade explodes

Published:
2011/02/10 07:01:41 AM

I CAN predict when SA’s “Tunisia Day” will arrive. Tunisia
Day is when the masses rise against the powers that be, as happened
recently in Tunisia. The year will be 2020, give or take a couple of
years. The year 2020 is when China estimates that its current
minerals-intensive industrialisation phase will be concluded.

For SA, this will mean the African National Congress (ANC)
government will have to cut back on social grants, which it uses to
placate the black poor and to get their votes. China’s current
industrialisation phase has forced up the prices of SA’s minerals, which
has enabled the government to finance social welfare programmes.

The ANC inherited a flawed, complex society it barely
understood; its tinkering s with it are turning it into an explosive
cocktail. The ANC leaders are like a group of children playing with a
hand grenade. One day one of them will figure out how to pull out the
pin and everyone will be killed.

A famous African liberation movement, the National
Liberation Front of Algeria, after tinkering for 30 years, pulled the
grenade pin by cancelling an election in 1991 that was won by the
opposition Islamic Salvation Front. In the civil war that ensued, 200000
people were killed.

The former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, once
commented that whoever thought that the ANC could rule SA was living in
Cloud Cuckoo Land. Why was Thatcher right? In the 16 years of ANC rule,
all the symptoms of a government out of its depth have grown worse.

- Life expectancy has declined from 65 years to 53 years since the ANC came to power;

- In 2007, SA became a net food importer for the first time in its history;

- The elimination of agricultural subsidies by the
government led to the loss of 600000 farm workers’ jobs and the eviction
from the commercial farming sector of about 2,4-million people between
1997 and 2007; and

- The ANC stopped controlling the borders, leading to a
flood of poor people into SA, which has led to conflicts between SA’s
poor and foreign African migrants.

What should the ANC have done, or be doing? The answer is
quite straightforward. When they took control of the government in 1994,
ANC leaders should have: identified what SA’s strengths were;
identified what SA’s weaknesses were; and decided how to use the
strengths to minimise and/or rectify the weaknesses.

A wise government would have persuaded the skilled white
and Indian population to devote some of their time — even an hour a week
— to train the black and coloured population to raise their skill
levels.

What the ANC did instead when it came to power was to
identify what its leaders and supporters wanted. It then used SA’s
strengths to satisfy the short-term consumption demands of its
supporters. In essence, this is what is called black economic
empowerment (BEE).

BEE promotes a number of extremely negative socioeconomic
trends in our country. It promotes a class of politicians dependent on
big business and therefore promotes big business’s interests in the
upper echelons of government. Second, BEE promotes an
anti-entrepreneurial culture among the black middle class by
legitimising an environment of entitlement. Third, affirmative action, a
subset of BEE, promotes incompetence and corruption in the public
sector by using ruling party allegiance and connections as the criteria
for entry and promotion in the public service, instead of having tough
public service entry examinations.

Let’s see where BEE, as we know it today, actually comes
from. I first came across the concept of BEE from a company, which no
longer exists, called Sankor. Sankor was the industrial division of Sanlam and it invented the concept of BEE.

The first purpose of BEE was to create a buffer group among
the black political class that would become an ally of big business in
SA. This buffer group would use its newfound power as controllers of the
government to protect the assets of big business.

The buffer group would also protect the modus operandi of
big business and thereby maintain the status quo in which South African
business operates. That was the design of the big conglomerates.

Sanlam was soon followed by Anglo
American. Sanlam established BEE vehicle Nail; Anglo established Real
Africa, Johnnic and so forth. The conglomerates took their marginal
assets, and gave them to politically influential black people, with the
purpose, in my view, not to transform the economy but to create a black
political class that is in alliance with the conglomerates and therefore
wants to maintain the status quo of our economy and the way in which it
operates.

But what is wrong with protecting SA’s conglomerates? Well,
there are many things wrong with how conglomerates operate and how they
have structured our economy.

- The economy has a strong built- in dependence on cheap labour;

- It has a strong built-in dependence on the exploitation of primary resources;

- It is strongly unfavourable to the development of skills in our general population;

- It has a strong bias towards importing technology and economic solutions; and

- It promotes inequality between citizens by creating a large, marginalised underclass.

Conglomerates are a vehicle, not for creating development
in SA but for exploiting natural resources without creating in-depth,
inclusive social and economic development, which is what SA needs. That
is what is wrong with protecting conglomerates.

The second problem with the formula of BEE is that it does
not create entrepreneurs. You are taking political leaders and
politically connected people and giving them assets which, in the first
instance, they don’t know how to manage. So you are not adding value.
You are faced with the threat of undermining value by taking assets from
people who were managing them and giving them to people who cannot
manage them. BEE thus creates a class of idle rich ANC politicos.

My quarrel with BEE is that what the conglomerates are
doing is developing a new culture in SA — not a culture of
entrepreneurship, but an entitlement culture, whereby black people who
want to go into business think that they should acquire assets free, and
that somebody is there to make them rich, rather than that they should
build enterprises from the ground.

But we cannot build black companies if what black
entrepreneurs look forward to is the distribution of already existing
assets from the conglomerates in return for becoming lobbyists for the
conglomerates.

The third worrying trend is that the ANC- controlled state
has now internalised the BEE model. We are now seeing the state trying
to implement the same model that the conglomerates developed.

What is the state distributing? It is distributing jobs to
party faithful and social welfare to the poor. This is a recipe for
incompetence and corruption, both of which are endemic in SA. This is
what explains the service delivery upheavals that are becoming a normal
part of our environment.

So what is the correct road SA should be travelling? We all
accept that a socialist model, along the lines of the Soviet Union, is
not workable for SA today. The creation of a state-owned economy is not a
formula that is an option for SA or for many parts of the world.
Therefore, if we want to develop SA instead of shuffling pre-existing
wealth, we have to create new entrepreneurs, and we need to support
existing entrepreneurs to diversify into new economic sectors.

- Mbeki is the author of Architects of Poverty: Why African
Capitalism Needs Changing. This article forms part of a series on
transformation supplied by the Centre for Development and Enterprise.

coffee drinker you oviously have know fear of God in you that you say such evil words. Be warned every idle word spoken he/she will give an account for one day. you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting. Be very careful what you say in the future.