What may have set the ANC on a path to corruption

[BusinessTech]

What may have set the ANC on a path to corruption

There are suggestions that the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa lost the plot after the ascension of Jacob Zuma as the party’s president in 2007. There may be important elements of truth in this. However, there are compelling reasons that situate the morality challenges faced by the ANC – and by extension the country – in the 1994 political transition.

 

[MrGray]

The article fingers a ruling class with no capital and a class with capital but no power as the cause. Perhaps this lays the groundwork, but I would argue that the actual mechanism of failure is a constitution that gives the president authority to hire and fire those in a position to rein him in, has no built in minority protections, and the obsession with BEE at all costs, which in practice is all B and no E as there is no actual means testing applied to whomever is being economically empowered (e.g. the child of a billionaire can benefit provided they have the right skin tone).

 

[spiff]

who runs the cANCer and or caused the corruption is irrelevant! they last the plot when they stopped building houses, creating jobs and uplifting their country men!

 

[The_MAC]

There will always be corrupt people amongst us, but when there are more corrupt then honest people, thats when the problem starts

 

[MrGray]

There will always be corrupt people amongst us, but when there are more corrupt then honest people, thats when the problem starts

It's when the agencies/institutions that are supposed to keep them in line fail. IMHO the NPA/Hawks/etc, even PP, are guilty of a far bigger crime by allowing corruption to go unchecked as it causes a systemic problem.

 

[zizebra]

and this
http://businesstech.co.za/news/gene...a-mercedes-benz-suv-days-after-being-elected/

 

[LazyLion]

Um, this path to corruption has been the unfortunate history and legacy of every revolutionary transition across the entire continent for the last 70 years.

 

[Hemi300c]

It's the African Way, most of Africa has the same problem with their leaders and mostly because of no true democracy and lack of education.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

The very first big deal they made ... the Arms Deal.