speech - FW de Klerk Foundation

• high unemployment;
• poor education -­‐ especially for black South Africans;
• poor public service delivery;
• corruption; and
• the fact that South Africa is still a divided society.
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There is, however, another underlying cause behind all these factors: it is the
Alliance’s adherence to unconstitutional and fundamentally inappropriate
ideologies.
In terms of the ANC’s National Democratic Revolution ideology, 1994 was not the
end of the revolutionary process -­‐ but merely an important beachhead on the line of
march toward the establishment of, what it calls, a non-­‐racial democratic society.
This revolution continues under the aegis of the ANC government and appears to be
directed against the majority of white South Africans -­‐ whom the ANC still regards as
“antagonists”.
The goal of the NDR is in essence to redistribute property and jobs so that they
reflect the demographics of the country at all levels in the private and public sectors
-­‐ irrespective of what the Constitution dictates. This would involve an enormous
process of social engineering in which people’s prospects would once again be
determined by race, rather than by individual merit and circumstances.
In accordance with the NDR, the ANC has unconstitutionally attempted to seize what
it calls the levers of state power -­‐ including the public service, the security forces,
parastatals, the judiciary and the SABC. It is also committed to staffing these
institutions with its own cadres, often irrespective of merit or experience.
The NDR was the source of the radical policy proposals that were adopted by the
ANC at its Policy Conference in June and that will be presented to the National
Conference in December.
At the core of these proposals is the ANC’s belief that the balance of forces has
shifted sufficiently in South Africa and internationally for it to abandon the
compromises it made in 1994. According to President Zuma, “We had to make
certain compromises in the national interest... For example, we had to be cautious
about restructuring the economy, in order to maintain economic stability and
confidence at the time.”
The ANC has evidently -­‐ and quite incorrectly -­‐ concluded that such caution is no
longer necessary.
Its policy proposals include:
• the establishment of a “developmental state” which would be “capable of
intervening effectively to transform economic relations, at the centre of our
economic agenda.”
• Reassessment of the future of the provinces;