Communist-ANC Treasurer-General, Mathews Phosa admitted the “inconvenient truth” Friday that his government’s race-based policies have driven white public servants away after his government took over in 1994, leaving government short of essential expertise. Phosa said ways had to be found to attract “mainly white” skilled people back to the public sector. Phosa also applauded the scrapping of the dreaded Expropriation Bill, saying it would have driven property values down. “It became clear for us that market values and the encouragement of co-operation, help and advice from the state would be a better way of promoting the acquisition of land,” said Phosa.
“We (ANC) said in Polokwane we are a caring organization. We don’t want to move forward like a guerrilla and say we know it all and our word is final. The ANC is listening to more voices on this matter to find a solution which does not unnecessarily undermine the property values of this country”.
His statements were made at a conference on poverty organised by the Freedom Front Plus to address South Africa’s increasing levels of poverty, in particular, among the Afrikaner community. On that note, Phosa refused to acknowledge racial factors in the nearly 400-percent increase of Afrikaner poverty.
Starting with the platitude, “poverty is colourless,” Phosa said, “There’s no such thing as white poverty. The problem of poverty and unemployment must be addressed holistically by government working with the private sector and NGOs and other stakeholders. Together we must find ways of ensuring that when land moves from white hands to black hands that there’s skills transfer to the new owners so that productivity continues,” said Phosa.
FF-Plus leader Pieter Mulder called for a re-think on affirmative action. “The fact that the ANC is brave enough to say these things about skills lost and the Expropriation Bill is positive. This is not a racial argument it’s a management argument. Up until now it has also been politically incorrect to talk about white poverty because people think it doesn’t exist.”
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Mathews Phosa like all his Marxist ANC buddies are liars and use sweet talk for their own evil agenda. Actions speak louder than words, seeing all the racist laws changed will be the only proof.
who cares about poor white people? Let them starve. Payback’s a b-tch