They want to bring apartheid back, says Mbeki

[dArKeR]

President Thabo Mbeki roundly criticised the Democratic Alliance, Inkatha Freedom Party and African Christian Democratic Party's "Coalition for Change" as a means to bring back apartheid.

In his first electioneering salvo since the launch of the party's manifesto in Durban, Mbeki, writing in his regular Friday website newsletter, said that in reality the DA, the IFP and the ACDP want "as faithful a return to the old system of unregulated capitalism as possible".

"In our situation, this is the real and undisguised meaning of such phrases as 'a flexible labour market', 'the free market', 'a minimal state', 'privatisation and deregulation', and so on," Mbeki said.

"To the extent that this is possible in our democratic society, they want to recreate the Ndabeni township that was established after the 1901 removals that followed the outbreak of the bubonic plague, and the townships on the Cape Flats as they were during the apartheid years, but without recourse to a Public Health Act or a Group Areas Act."

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=ct2004021321265387M124535&set_id=1

Surely AWOL and Cheney are supporting this move!

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1. Cheney has an anti-civil rights history!!!!

Cheney was against the liberation of Nelson Mandela from prison, in addition to his votes against various civil rights legislation.

http://www.bush-cheney.net/issues/civilrights.html

But the scary thing is if Cheney and Co. encourages reintroduction of apartheid to South Africa, ya think this might be a model for what he wants to do in the good ol' USA? Wonder what he'd tell Condi and Colin about their jobs if they do?

This is another compelling reason why this man should never be Vice pResident again.