The EFF’s puerile behaviour has exposed the shallowness of its claims to be the ideological inheritors of a ‘black consciousness’ tradition, writes Ebrahim Fakir
Incidentally, De Klerk has apologised for apartheid previously. These apologies did not absolve him of any moral responsibility for apartheid and its excesses. What victory — or virtue — is there in getting him to apologise again? It neither rehabilitates him as a moral agent, nor establishes any further moral principle.It neither establishes ethical principle nor serves any developmental instrumental purpose — other than to centre the EFF in the media.
Let’s first dispense with the canard that the EFF’s series of sequential disruptions of institutions is “brilliant high political strategy” . In fact, if anything it has served to impede oversight, retard accountability and undermine effective policy. The EFF’s disruption of Sona based on De Klerk's presence was futile — it neither compelled the ANC to defend De Klerk , nor was it calibrated to compel De Klerk to commit an act of moral compunction.
The ambitions of its leaders are two-fold. First, to remain immunised from prosecution for a range of criminal acts, and secon
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