PRESS RELEASE: Ramaphosa a 'Day Late and a Dollar Short' with Woke 'National Dialogue' Echo Chamber

National Dialogue a ‘Day Late and a Dollar Short’, says Referendum Party

President Ramaphosa is a compromised President, leading a compromised party, and a compromised government. He doesn’t know how to do the right thing, and if he did, he would do it too late to be of any use anyway. 

Ramaphosa’s announcement of the National Dialogue was therefore entirely in character. It took him three days short of a year after the formation of his ‘Government of National Unity (GNU)’ to even announce the ‘dialogue’, and his ‘Eminent Persons Group’ could not be less representative of the South African political spectrum even if that had been his intention (which perhaps it was). It is an echo chamber predominantly comprising left-wing progressives and ANC acolytes.

Does Ramaphosa really think, for example, that ANC member Roelf Meyer represents Afrikaners, and ANC member Edwin Cameron white South Africans? Who represents the perpetually down trodden so-called coloured people? Certainly not ex-ANC premier Manne Dipico. Ethnic minorities in South Africa have long since rejected the ANC as their political home.

Any national dialogue that doesn’t primarily focus on bringing the ANC itself to heel, that doesn’t ram home the message that race-based policy has doubled unemployment and halved industrial capacity, that doesn’t confront so-called liberation parties with the reality that ‘United in our diversity’ requires diversity to be celebrated and protected, not assaulted, and that doesn’t insist that those responsible for state capture must at the very least never hold any public office ever again, is an insult and will do more harm than good.

Who will deliver these hard truths? Certainly not the Eminent Persons Group! The epitaph of Ramaphosa’s partisan coterie of woke do-gooders can already be written in four depressing words - “More of the same”. Why waste everyone’s time?

In the Western Cape, where the majority have never once in three decades voted for the ANC, the solution is not one-sided dialogue, it is divorce.

DATE: 12 June 2025

Nasionale Dialoog is ‘n ‘dag laat en ‘n dollar te min’, sê Referendum Party

President Ramaphosa is ‘n gekompromitteerde president, aan die hoof van ‘n gekompromitteerde party en ‘n gekompromitteerde regering. Hy weet nie hoe om die regte ding te doen nie, en selfs al sou hy, sou dit te laat wees om enigsins nut te hê.

Ramaphosa se aankondiging van die Nasionale Dialoog was dus heeltemal in pas met sy styl. Dit het hom byna ‘n volle jaar geneem ná die stigting van sy sogenaamde ‘Regering van Nasionale Eenheid (RNE)’ om selfs die dialoog aan te kondig, en sy ‘Groep van Geagte Persone’ kon kwalik minder verteenwoordigend van die Suid-Afrikaanse politieke spektrum gewees het – selfs al was dit sy doel (wat dit moontlik was). Dit is ‘n eggo-kamer wat hoofsaaklik uit linkse progressiewes en ANC-lojaliste bestaan.

Dink Ramaphosa regtig, byvoorbeeld, dat ANC-lid Roelf Meyer Afrikaners verteenwoordig, en dat ANC-lid Edwin Cameron wit Suid-Afrikaners verteenwoordig? Wie verteenwoordig die sogenaamde bruin gemeenskap, wat voortdurend onderdruk word? Beslis nie die voormalige ANC-premier Manne Dipico nie. Etniese minderhede in Suid-Afrika het lankal die ANC as hul politieke tuiste verwerp.

Enige nasionale dialoog wat nie in die eerste plek daarop fokus om die ANC self tot orde te roep nie; wat nie die boodskap duidelik oordra dat rassegebaseerde beleid werkloosheid verdubbel en nywerheidsvermoë gehalveer het nie; wat nie sogenaamde bevrydingsbewegings konfronteer met die werklikheid dat ‘Verenig in ons diversiteit’ vereis dat diversiteit gevier en beskerm moet word – nie aangeval nie; en wat nie daarop aandring dat diegene verantwoordelik vir staatskaping ten minste nooit weer ‘n openbare amp mag beklee nie, is ‘n belediging en sal meer skade as goed aanrig.

Wie gaan hierdie harde waarhede oordra? Beslis nie die Groep van Geagte Persone nie! Die grafskrif vir Ramaphosa se partydige kring van woke wêreldverbeteraars kan reeds in vier ontmoedigende woorde geskryf word: “Meer van dieselfde.” Waarom almal se tyd mors?

In die Wes-Kaap, waar die meerderheid nog nooit in drie dekades vir die ANC gestem het nie, lê die oplossing nie in ‘n eensydige dialoog nie, maar in egskeiding.

DATUM: 12 Junie 2025

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