We inherited corruption: ANC

[Sting]

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article406835.ece/We-inherited-corruption--ANC

Apr 16, 2010 2:35 PM | By Sapa
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South Africa inherited a "corrupt and a wrong value system" which it was currently managing, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.

“...What we inherited actually corrupted us and therefore we are actually managing a corrupt system and a wrong value system.

“...The new order [after 1994]... inherited a well entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society as a whole,” he said delivering the Inaugural Violet Seboni memorial lecture at the Johannesburg City Hall.

Quoting former president Thabo Mbeki, Mantashe said:”Within the context of the development of capitalism in our country, individual acquisition and material wealth produced through oppression and exploitation of the black majority became the defining social value in the organisation of white society.”

This was historic he said.

“Now because the white minority was the dominant social force in our country, it entrenched in our society as a whole including among the oppressed the deep-seated understanding that personal wealth constituted the only true measure of individual and social success.”

Societal values have shifted from “revolutionary morality to material ownership”.

The country needed reminding that life was not about “being in business”.

“Youth must be informed about participation in academia, in politics, in trade unions, in NGOs and other structures and sectors that serve society if we dream of saving our society.

“Serving our people, not monetary accrual is the definition of success.”

Mantashe told the hall, packed with Congress of SA Trade Union members, that “prudence, modesty and hard work” should be the image projected by role models in society.

Seboni was second deputy president of Cosatu and she died in a car crash in April 2009 on her way to campaign for the ANC.

 

[Kosmik]

Oh ffs!

It's been 15+ years! Your party has its own charter which is spat on every chance you get. I hope your members wake up and see what you are doing. Stop blaming the past and clean house!

 

[JHatman]

Its taken them 15 years to realise they inherited a corrupt system? Boy we really are fsucked.

 

[LazyLion]

Bwahahaha!

Translation from the ANC Double Speak... "We are lazy and don't want to have to work hard for anything, we would prefer if people just gave us money for doing nothing!"

Sure there was corruption under the old apartheid government, the difference was if you were caught you found yourself in prison.

 

[Ricard]

I can only laugh! .. if they channeled their energy in to REAL work instead of dreaming of new excuses, SA would have the best EVERYTHING in the world. Instead calories are being burnt dreaming up ways to cover-up screwball decisions.

These politicians need to see a doctor... the chip on their shoulder is getting bigger and bigger

 

[Fazda]

OMG! Let's pull out the whip and blame the whites again.

Do these guys never hold themselves accountable for anything??

 

[LazyLion]

“Now because the white minority was the dominant social force in our country

LOL... I think the idiot spokesperson means the dominant economic force... or did the historically disadvantaged people not know how to party or have braais or get dates before the white people showed them? What an idiot.

 

[TKD01]

Ok so blaming your incompetency on something which was abolished 15 years ago?

Hmmm how does it go?? O yeah: OINK!!

 

[Flanders]

You just KNOW there's no hope when these a-hole deluxes come up with excuses like this! The wheels are coming off and everyone can see it so the denial tactic doesn't work any more. They've moved on to full-time, flat-out blameshifting now (something in which they're already VERY well versed in).

 

[TKD01]

if they channeled (even HALF) their energy in to REAL work instead of dreaming of new excuses, SA would have the best EVERYTHING in the world.

+1

 

[OhGats]

And now we are rewriting the book on corruption and reaching new heights..... instead of trying to avoid the same mistake.

 

[LazyLion]

so 15% of the population caused the other 85% to become corrupted and they have been unable to avoid the trend to corruption for 15 years? What does that tell you about how much backbone the 85% have?

 

[JHatman]

Race card to the rescue! Even the USA has one.

 

[Mila]

Jip they could not even fix apartheid.

 

[akescpt]

No accountability. Always victims. Milionare victims. Wearing a bit thin now. No matter what they do, power will be retained.

 

[I am Penguin]

100 years from now it will still be us whiteys to blame. A thousand years from now........ erm......... they wont exist as they would have ate themselves to extinction, "Kill the boer, Kill the farmer..... no food.....return to cannibalism.

 

[dlk001]

so 15% of the population caused the other 85% to become corrupted and they have been unable to avoid the trend to corruption for 15 years? What does that tell you about how much backbone the 85% have?

Corrupt ANC members and Government do not even make up 15% of SA population.

 

[Ricard]

100 years from now it will still be us whiteys to blame. A thousand years from now........ erm......... they wont exist as they would have ate themselves to extinction, no food.....return to cannibalism.

Look over the border.. what does Bob Mugarbage do? .. He blames the whites... and its been 30(?) years

 

[JHatman]

100 years from now it will still be us whiteys to blame. A thousand years from now........ erm......... they wont exist as they would have ate themselves to extinction, no food.....return to cannibalism.

Israelis and Palestinians still blame each other for things that happened thousands of years ago. I'm sure we'll still be getting blamed when Jesus returns because as Malema put it, they'll still be in power

 

[Sarakael]

So its all apartheid's fault? Thank goodness! I was starting to worry there was something the ANC couldn't blame on apartheid.