By Thami Zwane
There’s a groundswell of opinion that the ANC negotiators at Codesa sold the indigenous people of this country down the river. Hence, many people are now demanding to know what was exactly agreed upon.
The latest report from the SA Human Rights Commission revealed that 64% of blacks are living in penury compared with 41% coloureds, 6% of Indians and a mere 1% of whites. We are regressing and not progressing.
I’m sorry, we need not go further, the Constitution is an internationally-acclaimed document. Meaning, it is a cut and paste from outside of our borders. It’s a dummy that does not meet the needs of the people of SA, especially the previously disadvantaged. It is a well-crafted foreign document aimed at empowering and benefiting foreign nationals.
Foreigners illegally enter SA, commit felonies and fly out through our manned ports without consequences. Their home countries can’t extradite them to face the music. Surely, if our Constitution is so loved by the world, then there shouldn’t be any glitches in concluding extradition treaties. In fact, most of their embassies are here on home soil. The economy of this country is in the hands of the white minority and foreigners.
Redressing inequality, imbalances and injustices as enshrined in the Constitution is all just pie in the sky. Foreign blacks who include Chinese, Pakistani and Africans, substitute apartheid-scarred locals. Consistent with our founding document, transformation is, therefore, completed and the case of the niggling redress is finally closed.
The Star