{"id":7155,"date":"2013-07-15T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:28:32","slug":"kasrils-sees-his-anc-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7155","title":{"rendered":"Kasrils sees ‘his’ ANC slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kasrils and Mandela sing about killing some whites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anti-apartheid activist and former spy boss Ronnie Kasrils has lashed out at the government, saying it has “stumbled, faltered and lost its way”, according to a report.<\/p>\n

“It is necessary to put the ANC back on course,” Kasrils reportedly said at the Eastern Cape launch of Democracy from Below (DfB) in Mdantsane, Dispatch Online reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

“We must have far more open debate about what is wrong. This is not what we fought for. We fought for accountability and transparency,” he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

The campaign was meant to put pressure on the government, the Dispatch Online reported.<\/p>\n

Also present at the launch was former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.<\/p>\n

According to the Dispatch Online, she said the DfB did not want to participate in governance “only every five years”.<\/p>\n

“We are all from different organisations. We have a right to demand accountability… democracy is two-legged — voting and participating.<\/p>\n

“Freedom is not limited to the ability to vote, it stretches further than that.”<\/p>\n

Kasrils reportedly said democracy was not limited to politics and that participation by everyone was vital.<\/p>\n

“… It must spread to the economy and the land. We must also not be afraid of nationalisation.”<\/p>\n

The Dispatch Online reported that the DfB, which is not a political party, was officially launched in Cape Town last week. – SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Anti-apartheid activist and former spy boss Ronnie Kasrils has lashed out at the government, saying it has “stumbled, faltered and lost its way”, according to a report. “It is necessary to put the ANC back on course,” Kasrils reportedly said at the Eastern Cape launch of Democracy from Below (DfB) in Mdantsane, Dispatch Online … Continue reading “Kasrils sees ‘his’ ANC slide”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,3920,3923,3922,3919,3921],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-democracy-from-below","tag-kill-a-boer","tag-killing-whites","tag-ronny-kasrils","tag-spy-boss"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/kasrilsmandela.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}