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Skwatsha and the ANC get it wrong againShare
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Mcebisi Skwatsha is a slow learner, but his years in and around Western Cape politics seem to have taught him one thing: Dont disregard coloured people. In the days after the ANC's 2004 victory in the Western Cape, Skwatsha famously announced that "The coloured vote doesnt matter" and promptly started his campaign to unseat Ebrahim Rasool. His colleague in the ANC, Former Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo, went on to say that "Cape Town is not African enough" and at a time when the ANC was riding high, seemingly invincible countrywide, the Mayors Spokesperson, Rodney Ngoro, blasted coloured people as "barbaric animals" in a slew on a website.
The ANC consequently lost both the Mayoral chain and the Premiership of the Western Cape, and in the aftermath of the elections ANC leaders were quoted as saying that the Cape was a "Bastion of verkramptheid".
Yesterday Skwatsha made statements revealing his slow evolution, saying that the party had to rebuild structures in coloured areas, "who are the majority in this province". He goes onto say that "Ultimately, we must agree that there has been a profound failure of non-racialism in the Western Cape". Obviously Skwatsha appears to think that not voting for the ANC equates to racism, and theirin lies his and the ANC's fatal flaw, they do not understand the Western Cape, Cape Town or its long history.
To win power in the western cape permanently, the ANC has to do one of two things. Either they remake the demographics of the province and destroy its rich cultural history or they can assimilate and become more like the Western Cape. The ANC blames people in the Western Cape for not assimilating to their largerly Africanized ways, forgetting that since the 17th century the Cape has developed a culture distinct to the rest of South Africa. Skwatsha is correct in saying that many of the people of the Cape do not identify with the DA's agenda, but it is the ANC that has positioned itself as a party hostile to the people of the Cape, resentful of its independent streak, and ignorant of how different it is to the rest of the country. For 15 years the party has never asked how it could win the hearts and minds of the people born and rooted, but rather like a conquering army they have asked how the Cape could be changed so that it could be more like them. They have paid the price for this mistake.
Today at 2:11pm | Edit Note | Delete
Mcebisi Skwatsha is a slow learner, but his years in and around Western Cape politics seem to have taught him one thing: Dont disregard coloured people. In the days after the ANC's 2004 victory in the Western Cape, Skwatsha famously announced that "The coloured vote doesnt matter" and promptly started his campaign to unseat Ebrahim Rasool. His colleague in the ANC, Former Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo, went on to say that "Cape Town is not African enough" and at a time when the ANC was riding high, seemingly invincible countrywide, the Mayors Spokesperson, Rodney Ngoro, blasted coloured people as "barbaric animals" in a slew on a website.
The ANC consequently lost both the Mayoral chain and the Premiership of the Western Cape, and in the aftermath of the elections ANC leaders were quoted as saying that the Cape was a "Bastion of verkramptheid".
Yesterday Skwatsha made statements revealing his slow evolution, saying that the party had to rebuild structures in coloured areas, "who are the majority in this province". He goes onto say that "Ultimately, we must agree that there has been a profound failure of non-racialism in the Western Cape". Obviously Skwatsha appears to think that not voting for the ANC equates to racism, and theirin lies his and the ANC's fatal flaw, they do not understand the Western Cape, Cape Town or its long history.
To win power in the western cape permanently, the ANC has to do one of two things. Either they remake the demographics of the province and destroy its rich cultural history or they can assimilate and become more like the Western Cape. The ANC blames people in the Western Cape for not assimilating to their largerly Africanized ways, forgetting that since the 17th century the Cape has developed a culture distinct to the rest of South Africa. Skwatsha is correct in saying that many of the people of the Cape do not identify with the DA's agenda, but it is the ANC that has positioned itself as a party hostile to the people of the Cape, resentful of its independent streak, and ignorant of how different it is to the rest of the country. For 15 years the party has never asked how it could win the hearts and minds of the people born and rooted, but rather like a conquering army they have asked how the Cape could be changed so that it could be more like them. They have paid the price for this mistake.
