The DA hardly needs an excuse to resile from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s typical can-kicking national dialogue stunt (“John Steenhuisen in the president’s crosshairs”, June 30).
It was in any event doomed from the start, since Ramaphosa cannot implement anything arising from it unless it satisfies both of the two main ANC policy gatekeepers — the SACP and fellow travellers, and Crime Inc.
If the Africanist communist ideology is undermined the dialogue is over, and if the feeding trough is even partially drained it is over too.
There is no shortage of easy first steps to effect some economic improvement in SA, all of which have been ignored, including a detailed National Development Plan.
They are gathering dust because such initiatives cannot get past these regressive ANC components.
Sydney Kaye
Cape Town
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