Ramaphosa a long-term project of white monopoly capitalism in SA, says Niehaus
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Former MKMVA national spokesperson Carl Niehaus. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency (ANA)
Johannesburg – Former Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association spokesperson Carl Niehaus says the ANC is in a deep existential crisis and fingers President Cyril Ramaphosa as he has allowed the infiltration of the “mafia” like imperialists and white monopoly capitalists.
Niehaus said this on his podcast, "In My Crosshairs," on the social media platform YouTube.
He said this infiltration was a means for them to use the ANC as an instrument to quell freedom, hope, and liberation ideals.
“Ramaphosa has been a long-term project of white monopoly capitalism in South Africa, right from his youth,” Niehaus said.
He pointed out that Ramaphosa was the project of big business, especially in the mining sector, and that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was formed by the very same individual who funded his rise to power.
Niehaus underlined that under Ramaphosa’s leadership energy security has gone to tatters with frequent load shedding that fluctuated on a daily basis.
“Load shedding has now become institutionalised; it has become part of our lives. This is done deliberately. Ramaphosa is ensuring that we do not have energy security… That Eskom is being destroyed,” he said.
He also hit out at the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) for not being able to deal with the report of the integrity committee of the ANC about the Phala Phala farm scandal.
“We haven’t been able to get access to that report, although rumour tells us that the integrity committee says that Ramaphosa should step down as president of the ANC. The NEC does not have the guts to take that decision,” Niehaus said.
He said that he, Bathabile Dlamini, and Tony Yengeni as well as suspended party secretary-general Ace Magashule, who is the victim of the much-debated step aside rule have been unfairly clamped down on because of the rewriting of the resolution.
“With one intention that is to target especially comrade Ace Magashule, but also other members of the ANC. Among them the former mayor of eThekwini (Zandile Gumede), comrade Bongani Bongo. So that they will be excluded from being able to serve in the ANC’s NEC and be candidates for this upcoming conference,” Niehaus said.
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