ANC the bodyguard of capitalism - EFF

The African National Congress is the bodyguard of capitalism in South Africa, the EFF's political education and policy researcher Mlungisi Rapolile said.

Rapolile's comment was made at the party's elective congress at the University of Free State's Bloemfontein campus where he was presenting the party's founding manifesto.

"In the post-1994 period, the ANC has rendered South African society demoralised," Rapopile was quoted as saying in a Sapa report.

"The ANC government is the bodyguard of white capital monopoly.

"[President Jacob] Zuma, [ANC secretary general Gwede] Mantashe and [deputy president Cyril] Ramaphosa are bodyguards of capitalism."

Rapolile hit out the black economic empowerment policy, saying that the ruling party was being used it to promote capitalism. He also claimed that the ANC's founding members would be disappointed with the current government.

"If [anti-apartheid activist] Solomon Mahlangu would wake up today, he would cry. The ANC has compromised what was achieved by our forefathers."

The party's top six leaderswere elected at the congress on Sunday and are expected to be introduced to the delegates later today.

Primedia Online.
Culled from Yahoo News.