Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, this is why South Africans question your integrity: Your political ambitions and material interests need a long, hard look. Why are you still with the ANC when it has failed South Africa?
Dear Lindiwe Sisulu, I write this letter as a comprehensive response to the various opinion pieces you have written, and speeches and statements you have made, in the past six months.
It might seem odd that I refer to you as a “political elite”. But remember that you are an individual with an enormous salary, accompanied by stunningly generous benefits, in a country where 50% of the population is poor. And, importantly, you are part of a tiny minority of individuals who construct, mould and implement policy and legislation that impacts the life outcomes of millions.
As an accomplished academic and self-proclaimed pan-Africanist, I don’t doubt that you are familiar with the enduring analysis of Fanon. His description of post-colonial liberation movements, once in power, is both tragic and prophetic. Your party has, unfortunately, become a post-colonial disappointment because it is incapable and disinterested in guiding South Africa through the radical change it urgently needs.
To quote Fanon, after liberation from colonial domination “the coalition of socially and politically dominant classes uses its power to preserve and extend the mode of production on which its income depends”.
Free higher education, universal basic income, secure public housing, decommodified food access, land redistribution, livable wages — whenever citizens have sought even the most modest solutions to their socioeconomic suffering outside the market, your party has usually acted as a hindrance to such struggles and not a willing facilitator of human development.
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