Bantu Holomisa

Bantu Holomisa (born 25 July 1955) is a South African politician. He is a member of parliament for and president of the United Democratic Movement. and the current Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. Holomisa was born in Mqanduli, Cape Province. He joined the Transkei Defence Force in 1976 and had become a brigadier by 1985. Quotes No, that is not by any means certain. The people will have to tell us what they want. What is clear is that people don't want either the ANC or the NR But personally I do not wish to position myself to the left of the ANC. Actually, I was perfectly happy with ANC policies when I was in the ANC. The policies are not the problem. The problem is that they are just not implemented. The government has been getting rid of people with experience and putting in those who are unable to do the job. We are now suffering from a culture of greed and compensation with the idea being to reward comrades in arms or from jail. You can see the result. There is no delivery and the provinces are in complete shambles. Business is fed up with this government. They will not finance the ANC in the way they did in I 994 -there will be no more R2 million donations from some of them in 1999. Some businessmen would like to see us succeed but they may not always wish their name to be associated with us. That is all right. We will not allow anonymous donors but we are happy enough to have donors whose names are not publicised, just as many other parties do. At present, we get help from some black and white businessmen when we are organising meetings, they help us with the pa system, with the booking of stadiums, office administration etc. etc. No, I'm in favour of affirmative action provided it is a principled matter. This government has no principled affirmative action policy. What it has is a policy of putting in friends and relatives, nepotism in other words. The problem is that in exile, the ANC trained not one single cadre to be a policeman, for example, and a policeman needs a lot of training. This is true of many other jobs as well and it is simply no good pretending that ANC cadres can do all the jobs they are being given. One must not be shy of using the experience and expertise of whites. This is not a colonial situation: we have not just received our independence. Whites are South Africans too. This is not an ideological question. The question is simply lack of governance. Look at the way in which they got rid of lots of experienced teachers and are now running to Cuba for teachers. It's absurd. It's reasonable to treat a director generalship of a ministry as a political appointment but everybody else from deputy director general on down should be appointed simply on merit. Party interest must never be put above the nation's interest and yet that is just what the ANC is doing. External links Category:Living people Category:Politicians from South Africa