DEAR Editor,-
I write in response to recent claims by Gwede Mantashe that the United States is actively trying to bring the ANC government down by stealth. According to him there is a programme that takes young people to the United States for six weeks, brings them back and plants them in campuses and everywhere else.
This shows that the ANC has not just learned from the National Party government tricks, like gerrymandering wards before an election and handing out large increases to civil servants at election time. They are now resurrecting another ghost.
In the sixties when I was involved in Human Resources professionally, I was asked by an organisation called American Field Service to assist in the selection of bright young South African matriculants for possible trips to the United States to attend schools there for a brief period.
This did not please Foreign Minister at the time, Eric Louw, whose attempts to defend the indefensible horrors of apartheid had earned South Africa the epithet of the polecat of the world. Mr Louw claimed that the American Field Service took the best and brightest matric students to America to brainwash them and turn them against their own country. He was particularly upset that even youngsters from Afrikaans schools came back questioning the apartheid policy.
Let me assure the general secretary of the ANC that bright children don’t have to go to America to find out that the calamitous decisions of the ANC government are collapsing the economy of South Africa. As the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
DAVE SNASHALL
HAVE YOUR SAY
Like our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and Instagram
For news straight to your phone, add us on BBM 58F3D7A7 or WhatsApp 082 421 6033
