Echo of apartheid strategy in battle over the public purse

04 September 2016 - 02:00
By Mamphela Ramphele

The attempt to oust Pravin Gordhan masks an assault on our future, but the outcome of the recent local elections gives SA a chance to start again, writes Mamphela RampheleCitizens would be unwise to view the SARS wars as simply symptoms of factional conflict within the ANC. The war being waged is part of a titanic struggle to control the public purse, the lifeblood of our society, for the enrichment of a few loyalists of those in the highest office of our land.

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