DEAR Editor,-
The SACP Civic Centre Voting Station (VD) branch notes that the discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and the conquest and the looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.
At our own modern history we are perfunctorily glancing the same adventure of black-skins hunted to protect the hegemony of capitalist-ruling class in politics and economy, as DA tried to lure Ramphele in vain. Not long ago the minority section of our society came out with strategy; Calvinism – a survival strategy that whites as colonisers and racial minority use to allocate themselves power in order to dominate all keys of societal spheres. The new cancer that is also feeding itself to our social fibre is price fixing.
In 1999 a bunker cost taxpayers’ money to the tune of R90 million. Hedge cost R80 million that totalled Rl70 million for the-then president of South Africa. Stadia, which were built for 2010 World Cup were too exorbitant because companies in this sector fixed the prices. We are also the victims of price fixing on basic foods e.g breads, milk.
In this epoch, we are witnessing the rapprochement of these scrappy businesses who were given task to tighten security at Nkandla, conducted their business in the manner that spite the face of good governance. They must be investigated by forces that are mandated to fight corruption everywhere it rear its ugly head, both in private and public sectors.
MJEQEZI
SACP CIVIC CENTER VD
