So, at dinner tables all across South Africa, people are complaining about such nebulous subjects as “crime” and “the economy”. Being far from the aforementioned dinner parties I’m usually out of the loop on the latest political developments.
However.
The recent xenophobic violence across the country caught my attention. And slowly and quietly South Africans have been voicing their concern about the ANC, and corruption. I personally stopped believing in South African democracy when the ANC disbanded the Scorpions, an elite anti-corruption force that was on the brink of indicting prominent ANC figures.
Now it seems my rabble-rousing southerners are bringing things into the open again. As follows an excerpt from an email from an old chommie’s company. (This is not the entire statement… but you get the gist)
Amandla Publishers(www.amandla.org.za) agrees with Archbishop Emeritus and the Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu that “If South Africa was a democracy, there had to be certainty that those who led it were as uncorrupt as possible. It is a court of law that will ultimately decide whether [leaders are or not]“. Through publishing the bi-monhtly Amandla magazine Amandla Publishers contributes to building left and working class organisations and debates.
Amandla Publishers supports the call for a judicial commission of inquiry on the Arms Deal whose hearings and report must be open to the public, and following which all those individuals implicated in corruption and other crimes must be subject to criminal prosecution without fear, favour or prejudice, and those who were unfairly accused of corruption and other crimes being cleared publicly. We call for public vigilance and mobilisation in support of the progressive values of our Constitution. We callfor sustained social mobilisation to advance the socio-economic interests of the poor and working people and the building of left voices and platforms
