04/12/2025
THE BLACK AND WHITE FAMILY CONTINUES TO SUFFER FROM CADRE DEPLOYMENT GONE WRONG.
The original and genuine cadre deployment policy was meant to be a tool to advance the noble cause of transforming state institutions and the levers of the economy from being tools for political oppression and economic exploitation. It was about societal equity and justice.
It was about selecting the best-qualified and professional individuals, black or white, in society. It was meant to be a force for societal good not for bad.
At the dawn of democracy, I personally worked with white people who believed in and promoted these policies. The first Director General of Housing was Billy Corbet. The first Director General of Water Affairs was Mike Muller. There are many more examples. They designed some of the present-day policies befitting previously disadvantaged people, including white women.
It was never to advance predator cronyism, patronage networks, self-aggrandisement, and narrow selfish business interests. They were never intended to advance criminality and corruption.
Rogue elements, with the support of factional ANC neoliberals, became useful tools in the hands of monopoly capital to repurpose and corrupt otherwise good-intended policies like BEE and land reform. (They were never intended to be permanent)
The latter two policy examples are failing to serve the interests of equity and justice for the majority. The MAJORITY of BLACK and WHITE families continue to suffer the worst forms of cost of living under the weight of a few white male dominants. (READ THIS TO UNDERSTAND AND CONTEXTUALISE)
The biggest beneficiaries of the democratic dividend are big business monopolies. Just look and the structure of the political economy, 31 years into democracy. The white male apartheid economy architecture endures to this present day. Big business and monopoly banks are racking in billions in profits for financing BEE deals in mining and other assets. These are for the politically connected few to the exclusion of the majority.
These two scoundrels are typical examples of cadre deployment gone wrong. They represent what should never have happened.
Their reign of terror and corruption was aided and abetted by powerful ANC leaders who saw nothing, heard nothing, and did nothing, for as long as they and their predator networks benefited. It was, and continues to be, NOT about the ordinary people and the interests of the country.
