tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26490003.post117400016931100145..comments2023-11-03T06:02:08.556-04:00Comments on mhambi: Left rhetoric right wing actionsWesselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17822173778126767406noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26490003.post-1174931436767510032007-03-26T14:50:00.000-04:002007-03-26T14:50:00.000-04:00Hi Wessel,Thanks for a comprehensive and thought p...Hi Wessel,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for a comprehensive and thought provoking post. I haven’t read most of your sources (something I’ll aim to do), but did want to share some of the thoughts I had while reading your post: none of which are intended as pro-ANC or anti-NP, just purely economic. <BR/><BR/>Inequality may indeed have decreased under the NP, but I would also contend that the economic course Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751208713884307624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26490003.post-1174741977002600202007-03-24T10:12:00.000-04:002007-03-24T10:12:00.000-04:00True Steve. Botha did indeed follow that course, a...True Steve. Botha did indeed follow that course, and this probably also increased inequality between whites, but at the same time he spent heavily on the upliftment of black, coloured and asian South Africans.<BR/><BR/>Rump of the NP? It was more like a skeleton that was absorbed.Wesselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17822173778126767406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26490003.post-1174534012727709652007-03-22T00:26:00.000-04:002007-03-22T00:26:00.000-04:00South Africa began to move towards Thatcvherism in...South Africa began to move towards Thatcvherism in the 1980s, under PW Botha, and the ANC has simply continued on this course (which is probably why it was so easy to absorb the rump of the NP). <BR/><BR/>The abolition of the building societies removed one of the tools for solving the housing problem. The demutualisation of life insurance was part of the same process. The biggest fraud is that "Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.com