Al Jama-ah Meets With The ANC

AL JAMA-AH warns ANC against a ‘return of white rule’ should it go ahead with a Government of National Unity:

Al Jama-ah’s Party’s leader and Member of Parliament Hon Ganief Hendricks was invited by the ANC over the weekend as part of the latter’s consultation process on its plans to settle for a Government of National Unity (GNU).

Although Al Jama-ah welcomed the ANC’s wide consultation process with political parties, Hendricks made it clear that the party is strongly opposed to a GNU.
Hendricks says the ANC was given a mandate to govern and serve – even though with 40% as a minority government – but warned the former liberation movement against joining hands with parties that are hell bent to return the country to ‘white rule.’

At the center of discussions between Al Jama-ah and the ANC was Hendricks’ strong position that there should be no place for a return of DA and white governance in South Africa and for the country to become less dependent on white monopoly. “Less dependence on white monopoly is the only way to prosperity for all South Africans. The country’s economy should be controlled by Blacks; the reparation of land will not be achieved by a GNU. Codesa delayed true freedom and a GNU will further bury these aspirations which would eventually lead to a bloodbath,” says Hendricks.

The party views the GNU as a mere modernized approach of apartheid with a clear objective for a regime change through a ‘soft coup’. Lessons must be learnt from the past 30 years of freedom which are described by many as fake. South Africa must govern and serve her people without any interference from the former colonial ‘masters’ which is against the ANC’s policy of non-racialism. “The inequalities existing amongst South Africans have been allowed to grow to alarming proportions and this requires a radical change,” he says.

He adds that white monopoly capital must be replaced by a benevolent private sector – those who benefitted from the apartheid system – whose benevolence must be seen as a method for reparations. Hendricks has raised concerns that the freedoms South Africans are enjoying today, will be reversed if the DA and its ‘Moonshot Pact’ chair Portfolio Committees and delay amendments or repeal of legislation that entrenched apartheid.