MK Party Has No Solutions For SA
Apart from his extravagant claims about the GNU, considering the credible analysis Visvin Reddy provides of what’s wrong with South Africa (The Mercury, February 27), it is obvious that his membership in the MK Party is misplaced.
Calling for the country to embrace “a path of stability and prosperity” is, of course, a common-sense outlook. But it is a path that cannot emanate from the MK Party. Reddy’s appeal to avoid “irreparable damage” unless a decisive change is made in the direction the country is headed is ironic because the policies of the MK Party ensure “irreparable damage to the fabric of our society.”
The state of the country is precisely because of the same socialist policies the MK Party promotes, except that it would replace the constitution with the Marxist Freedom Charter. An MKP regime would accelerate the country’s downward trajectory into a socialist paradise by declaring state ownership of all property and resources while severely marginalising free speech and intimidating opposition into submission.
The net result of an MKP regime would be a flight of capital, accelerated emigration of skills, accelerated poverty, and unemployment. That is what socialist states produce, Cuba and Venezuela being current examples.
