Wednesday, March 2, 2011

SOUTH AFRICA: FUTURE UNCERTAIN: Trevor Manuel's âeuro;oelig;savage .

Minister in the Presidency in point of the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel has written a scathing open letter to his ANC colleague Jimmy Manyi who live year-in his capacity as chairman of the Black Management Forum (BMF) and while he was however the director general of the labor department-said there were too many colored people in the Western Cape, that they "should spread in the remainder of the country .

so they must quit this over-concentration situation because they are in over-supply where they are so you must look into the nation and see where you can meet the supply".

Central to the result is the Employment Equity Amendment Bill of 2010, recently unveiled by the Department of Labour, the draft legislation of which could levy a block on the further hiring of coloured workers while also forcing employers to cut the existing act of coloured employees.

It`s a direct result of the removal from the charge of the current reference to `regional demographics` in the Employment Equity Act of 1998 which provision allows designated employers to make their workforces conform to either internal or regional demographics.

Now the charge requires employers to adhere only to national population demographics.

In the Western Cape, coloureds comprise 55% of the economically active population against only 29 % of Africans. Nationally, however, the numbers change radically. Now the proportion is 74% African to 11% coloured.

So, with the omission from the notice of the character to regional demographics, it becomes necessary for employers to consider the essential steps to shift to the national demographics.

With designated employers now having to adjust as quickly as possible towards a workforce of 74% African and 11% coloured there could be an estimated loss of a million coloured jobs in the Western Cape. And a like situation could grow with respect to the Indian population in KwaZulu-Natal.

A commenter to the Mail & Guardian Online had the chase to say:
Hello! I saw this approach years ago. ANC and the relaxation of the political elite are in effect saying that the Coloureds are obstacles to the complete domination envisioned by another of South Africa's racial groups. What these so-called smart ANC leaders don't get and never will get because of their obsession with racial domination is that the Coloureds are the posterity of the ORIGINAL inhabitants of the southern parts of Africa, the Kho-Khoi and Khoisan people. If the descendents of people who migrated to from central Africa down to southern Africa long afterwards thousands of days ago can make utterances like these, South Africa will be staring down the cask of a gun.

So often for democracy and non-racialism. That day is approaching when ........

I'll do my bit as a Dark and I'll send it abroad with pleasure.A spinoff effect of a big scale motion of coloured families away from the Western Cape would be a tearing down of the Democratic Alliance's voter support. It is, after all, the colored vote which won the Western Cape for the DA and which keeps the company in force there.

And the ANC won`t rest until it regains control of the Western Cape. Addressing more than 1 000 people at an ANC rally in Khayelitsha in 2008, President Zuma said:

"We shall make this organisation. Even God expects us to find this state because we are the only system which was beatified by pastors when it was formed.

"It is still blessed in Heaven. That is why we will reign until Christ comes back. We should not let anyone to rule our city (Cape Town) when we are ruling the country".

Draw your own conclusions as to the very reason can the amended EEA bill.

Manyi, who was re-elected last year as president of the BMF, told the South African Press Association on Thursday afternoon that: "This has naught to do with me personally . I make a role to play as messenger. I am either for the BMF or the government. This has naught to do with Jimmy Manyi. Why is this being personalised? . I only say the government's view . This was the BMF position. I make no feelings on any issue. I talk as BMF chairman or as the government spokesman," he said.

But Trevor Manual is having none of that. His open-letter denunciation of Jimmy Manyi-whose racism, he adds significantly, has infiltrated the highest echelons of government-leaves no room for ambiguity:
Dear Jimmy,

Let us drop titles for the use of a necessary exchange. So let us forget for now that I am a cabinet minister and that you are a director-general equivalent, in the same government.

I wish to call you just as a compatriot South African.

I wish to get to your care the fact that your statements about "an over-concentration of coloureds" are against the missive and tone of the South African Constitution, as good as being against the values espoused by the Black Management Forum (BMF) since its inception.

That you were a director-general of the Department of Labour, as good as the chairman of the BMF at the clock when you made these statements is rather a mystery.

It is a secret because I must take that you were elected as chair of the BMF, without any acquaintance with the story and formation of that organisation; and that you were appointed as director-general of the Department of Labour, without any acquaintance with the Formation of the Republic of South Africa or the legislation administered by the department.

I note from a Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) press release, that Mr Vusi Mona issues in his own name, that you apologize for the argument because "some people may have taken offence". This continued negative behaviour merely serves to corroborate the values that you hold, or more precisely, lack.

Firstly, why Mr Mona had to take a command is beyond comprehension since you distinctly did not utter those racist sentiments as an official of the GCIS.

Secondly, that you want the moral conviction to publicly apologise says so often about your acute lack of judgement.

Thirdly, that the statement apologises only for the fact that "some people may have taken offence" says to me that you clearly fail to value the extent to which your utterances are both unconstitutional and morally reprehensible.

These "things", (as the ANC statement says, your utterances reduce people to being mere commodities) in your view, "the coloureds who are over-concentrated in the Western Cape", are the sons and daughters of those who waged the first anti-colonial battles against the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British when they set foot on our shores.

These "things", which so irritate you, include many who made huge sacrifices in the fight against apartheid, at a sentence when people with views like Jimmy Manyi were conspicuous by their absence from the wretchedness of exile, the battles at the barricades and from apartheid`s jails. By the way, what did YOU do in the war, Jimmy?

I desire to put it to you that these statements would fix you a racist in the work of HF Verwoerd. I wish to put it to you that you make the like idea that operated under apartheid, never merely satisfied with inflicting the pain of forced removals and the group areas act, would encamp language groups so that horrible aberrations, such as Soshanguve, were created to accommodate "non-Tswanas" in their own little encampments in greater Mabopane.

Mr Manyi, you may be black, or maybe you aren`t, because you do not have that mark and would choose to be "merely a Xhosa". Whatever the judge you choose, I wish to put it to you that your behaviour is of the worst-order racist.

I relate to you in this way because those of us who base our way into the conflict through the Black Consciousness Movement have ever understood the stock of the Black Management Forum, as we have understood and supported the ANC documents that talk of "blacks in general, and Africans, in particular". Regrettably, in your understanding the term "black" has rather a different meaning. As a result of your behaviour, people like me - in the ANC and in government - are being asked to explain what was in the idea of the drafters of the amendments to the Employment Equity Act.

We were present at the period of the disputation of the first Employment Equity Bill; we expressed a complete comfort with the appointment of "designated groups" to include "black mass" which means "Africans, Coloureds and Indians" because it served as a representation of our constitutionality and as the fruits of our struggle.

When, in your content as chairman of the Employment Equity Commission, you made strange utterances that sought to carve out the basic assumption of the Employment Equity Act, we should have been more vigilant.

The fair and constitutionally obligated provisions for damages are not and can never be an apology to perpetuate racism.

Now, in the spark of the utterances you made when you were the DG of the Department of Labour, and granted the fact that the amendments to the Employment Equity Act were drafted during your tenure, I take a smell that your racism has infiltrated the highest echelons of government.

Count me among those who, in spite of my position, will see that parliament acts in the missive and feeling of our constitution when it adopts amendments to the act.

I have never waged any battle from the preface of an epithet that apartheid sought to tie to me but I will do fight against the damage you try to inflict. When I do so, it is not as a coloured but as a non-racist determined to see that our great effort and our constitution are not diluted through the actions of racists like you.

I have been disposed to give before for the movement of the form of society articulated in the Freedom Charter. It is not a movement that has ended. I take but not been called upon to make the same sort of sacrifices since 1990. I must hold my willingness to fix sacrifices now in respect to the opening lines of the Freedom Charter that boldly announce that "South Africa belongs to all who dwell in it".

I now acknowledge who Nelson Mandela was talk about when he said from the tail that he had fought against white supremacy and that he had fought against black domination.

Jimmy, he was talk about fighting against people like you.If you think in signs of providence, and if you watch carefully, you`ll start to see unfolding a succession of events lead to an impossible scenario: the ANC's defeat in a general election.

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