The country's construction sector needs massive transformation, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi said on Thursday.
"The industry has to transform and include black professionals. Engineers, surveyors and all sorts of artisans in the sector are male and white," he told delegates at the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM) central executive committee meeting in Johannesburg.
He's not wrong. But what he's not doing is accepting responsibility for the fact that the education system that his government has destroyed developed is not producing the black skills that it needs to create those engineers, artisans etc. A skilled artisan takes years of training - the shortage of these artisans cannot simply be reduced to anti-transformation sentiments.
This cry of lack of transformation/racism is really an acknowledgement by the ANC government that it has failed. If you can't accept responsibility for your mistakes then blame it on apartheid and white racism. The problem is that the country has seen through all this and the ANC is going to have to start accepting responsibility for its own fuck ups.
Strangely enough I am sensing that they are starting to do this.
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