Does Business Day really think there will be “an honest civil society-led National Dialogue” that would amount to a kind of referendum on the ANC’s misrule? (“The return of the politics of spectacle”, June 30). Do you think President Cyril Ramaphosa will entertain that?
We paid more than R1bn for the Zondo state capture commission and nothing has come of it. How will a “national dialogue” change anything? Everyone knows (or should know) that the president’s call is purely to deflect attention from ANC failure.
The DA is right to stay well away from it as “good faith” and the ANC are mutually exclusive. All minorities should stay away as well, until the removal of discriminatory legislation is up for discussion. Otherwise we’re just turkeys discussing whether to vote for Christmas.
The ANC can have a “national dialogue” with its DA partner in parliament every day of the week if it wants to get SA on the right track. That’s where decisions are, and should be, made. That is how democracy is supposed to work, right?
Ian Ferguson
Via BusinessLIVE
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