The right wing, middle class...is the circus in town again...?

[Mojoman]

Small wonder there shall always be racism in South Africa:

 

Cape Town - The SA Communist Party wants the tripartite alliance to unite in the fight against toll highways to avoid abandoning the issue to "essentially right-wing, middle-class interest groups".

 

The party said in a May Day statement on Tuesday that there was a risk that the e-tolling issues could be hijacked by the Democratic Alliance, AfriForum and the Automobile Association.

 

"The delay gives us some more space as the tripartite alliance to find a united way forward," the party said.

 

"It is absolutely essential that we do now unite ourselves - otherwise we will abandon this issue to the DA, AfriForum, the Automobile Association and other essentially right-wing, middle-class interest groups."

 

Gautrain

 

The idea of a multi-billion rand widening and expanding of the freeway system in Gauteng was first pushed in the early 2000s by a group of former ANC Gauteng politicians, the party said.

 

These politicians, whom the party did not name, were in league with narrow empowerment entrepreneurs and "big capital".

 

It was "basically the same group" who also pushed for the multi-billion rand Gautrain project.

 

"Most of the former ANC Gauteng leaders involved in these projects were part and parcel of the 1996 class project. Some of them went on to join Cope (Congress of the People).

 

"Neither the Gautrain nor the Freeway Project were concerned with addressing the transport problems confronting the working class and poor in Gauteng."

 

The Gautrain, which cost R27bn, does not go anywhere near any of the major townships of Gauteng - Soweto, Orange Farm, Mamelodi or Shoshanguve.

 

When the train does come close to a Tembisa or an Alexandra "it does its best to skip around them".

 

"It is focused on white suburbs and business districts," the SACP said.

 

It was “essentially the same group of tenderpreneurs” who championed the Gautrain project who also championed the Gauteng e-toll project.

 

Not the same objections

 

The SACP and Cosatu's objections to the e-toll freeway project were not the same as those of the DA, AfriForum or the car-hire companies.

 

“The DA and its friends are not objecting to the fact that R20bn of our scarce public resources have been spent on their Gauteng infrastructure.

 

"They just don’t want to pay for it themselves.”

 

The e-toll project has also weakened the power of elected politicians in favour of hundreds of “quasi-public stand-alone agencies” like the SA National Road Agency Limited.

 

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/SACP-wants-unity-in-anti-toll-fight-20120501

[Baster Brak]

And it is the SACP IDOTS who keep doing their best to keep these same politicians in power, what a joke, nothing but lip service and a desperate attempt for a dying party to try and grab some form of publicity

[pastapouch]

Its their government who's put it in, with out money, our taxes...huh Or am I reading it incorrectly. Its funny how they always "the white man this, the white man that" but never when it comes to collecting taxes. Then the white man is good.

[flymango]

Our rainbow nation has become a melting pot of colour and a rainbow notion.

 

Heck, some dude couldn't get a haircut down the road from me at the weekend.

 

Real pity...

Edited May 2, 2012 by flymango

[Azonic]

Its their government who's put it in, with out money, our taxes...huh Or am I reading it incorrectly. Its funny how they always "the white man this, the white man that" but never when it comes to collecting taxes. Then the white man is good.

 

Yep, but you can't say that aloud though... you might look racist. Laughable, isn't it?

[sias]

Heck, some dude couldn't get a haircut down the road from me at the weekend.

Real pity...

 

If he was black, we'll soon read about it in the papers.

If he was white, who gives a toss...

[SwissVan]

 

It was "basically the same group" who also pushed for the multi-billion rand Gautrain project.

 

"Neither the Gautrain nor the Freeway Project were concerned with addressing the transport problems confronting the working class and poor in Gauteng."

 

The Gautrain, which cost R27bn, does not go anywhere near any of the major townships of Gauteng - Soweto, Orange Farm, Mamelodi or Shoshanguve.

 

When the train does come close to a Tembisa or an Alexandra "it does its best to skip around them".

 

"It is focused on white suburbs and business districts," the SACP said.

 

 

Duh!! The good folk in the major Townships already have a dedicated railway service and a hugely succesfull taxi service. What a pity its the same folk (many of whom are probably SACP supporters) who insist on trashing these trains every once in awhile.

 

Not directed at the poster, but whoever wrote the original artical.

[pastapouch]

Duh!! The good folk in the major Townships already have a dedicated railway service and a hugely succesfull taxi service. What a pity its the same folk (many of whom are probably SACP supporters) who insist on trashing these trains every once in awhile.

+10000000. they break everything down, and then they look at others "You have everything and we have nothing". Yaaaa, Africaaaa.

[Pappa Bear]

We must be the only nation that has a black and white rainbow.