Phil Flockton, Rondebosch
The ANC’s policy of reserving jobs in the public service and in SOEs for card-carrying members of the movement, in preference to those technically and/or ethically qualified, surely cannot be described as “benevolent” or filled with “good intentions” (“SA faces law of unintended consequences,” Southern Suburbs Tatler, September 9).
As Jacques Moolman wrote, “The consequences of that policy have been disastrous.”
Job reservation is indeed ”benevolent“, but only towards the party in government: by guaranteeing jobs in exchange for loyalty and obedience.
Cadre deployment is not only a feature of revolutionary socialist ideology but was also widely practised under the old Nationalist Party government. In both instances, the policy “paved the way to the abyss”, but, Mr Moolman, in neither instance was the slow and painful journey to the abyss a result of “good intentions”.