MPs gather in the National Assembly to vote on the proposed Budget that the Freedom Front Plus, and the DA among other parties has rejected.
Image: Armand Hough / Independent Newspapers
WHOSE taxes does the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) intends to use to advance only the interests of Afrikaners and not all South Africans?
We pose this question because if the FF+’s continued stay in the Government of National (GNU) is solely for the benefit of one race group, then it seriously needs to reconsider its position in government.
Not that it needs any reminder, the democratic South Africa that’s 30 years old belongs to all who live in it, black and white. One assumes this is obvious in a country with such a painful history as ours. Importantly State resources know no race, creed, culture nor religion. Those resources belong to all of us and should be used to improve the country’s crumbling infrastructure and better the lives of all South Africans.
By attempting to use its GNU position to score political points, the FF+ with or without knowing also adds fire to the false Donald Trump and Afriforum narrative that Afrikaners were being targeted with the passing of various pieces of legislation such as the Basic Education Laws Amendment or Bela and Expropriation.
By rejecting the proposed budget, the FF+ just like their fellow GNU partners, the DA, put themselves in an untenable position and must live with the consequences of their decision without seeking to cause further racial divisions.
How realistic is their objective of staying in the GNU when they intended using the same budget that they voted against to benefit the minorities, which they claim to be more concerned with? Put differently, how will the FF+ implement government initiatives using the budget they opposed?
More than ever, our country needs builders not divisive politicians who find refuge in flaming racial divisions. No one race group or culture is superior than any other in this country…that’s apartheid thinking and has no place in democratic South Africa.
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