{"id":105387,"date":"2023-10-14T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/uncategorized\/the-power-of-us\/"},"modified":"2023-10-14T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:17:33","slug":"the-power-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/en\/easyequities-writers-festival-news\/the-power-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"105387\" class=\"elementor elementor-105387 elementor-50086\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-33166f6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"33166f6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-80ca74d\" data-id=\"80ca74d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8d251e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8d251e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u2019n Make-over vir Suid-Afrika<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-72c3ebb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"72c3ebb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-82ec7bc\" data-id=\"82ec7bc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60528a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60528a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>deur\u00a0<b>Jo-Ann Floris<\/b><br \/>EasyEquities Skrywersfees: <b>The power of us<\/b><br \/>Foto: <b>Mabine Seabe<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-34c625b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"34c625b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1d9c24e\" data-id=\"1d9c24e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-920d283 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"920d283\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Van die kleine village Mqanduli in die Oos-Kaap kom Songezo Zibi met ideale en groot drome vir \u2019n beter Suid-Afrika.<\/p><p>Met \u2019n vaste oortuiging dat sy politieke beweging Rise Mzansi in volgende jaar se verkiesing die ander partye gaan laat les ops\u00ea, lyk Zibi heel gemaklik in die groot skoene wat hy gekies het om aan te trek.<\/p><p>Dis in Mqanduli dat Zibi se sosiale bewussyn geslyp is, vertel hy aan die gehoor in die EasyEquities Skrywerstent by die Toyota US Woordfees.<\/p><p>Die oortuiging van wat politiek behoort te wees, en hoe gemeenskaplike eienaarskap in Suid-Afrika die rol wat provinsies nou speel, maklik kan vervang.<\/p><p>Zibi is \u2019n voormalige kommunikasiehoof, oud-joernalis en -redakteur. Hy deel Vrydag die verhoog met gesprekleier, die oud-politikus Roelf Meyer, en advokaat en arbeidsprokureur Frans Rautenbach. Dit is \u2019n gelaaide paneel. Meyer was tot in 1996 aktief betrokke in politiek toe hy uit die kabinet bedank het en die volgende jaar medestigter was van die UDM saam met Bantu Holomisa.<\/p><p>Voor dit het hy \u2019n sleutelrol gespeel in die onderhandelinge vir \u2019n demokratiese Suid-Afrika uit die geledere van die Nasionale Party. Hy is steeds ten nouste betrokke met vredesonderhandelinge en ontwikkelingsprojekte regoor die vasteland. Sy bydrae besorg aan hom die silwertoekenning vir die Orde van Baobab, \u2019n presidensi\u00eble erkenning vir sy \u201cgroot bydrae tot nasiebou, sy onderhandelinge en om seker te maak elke landsburger word beskerm deur die Grondwet\u201d.<\/p><p>Toevallig of nie, is dit hier waar hy en Zibi \u2019n aanknopingspunt vind \u2013 Mqanduli is ook Holomisa se tuisdorp.<\/p><p>Maar terug na die gesprek.<\/p><p>Met sy nuwe party bring Zibi \u2019n idealisme sonder konkrete beleid, meen van sy kritici.<\/p><p>Dit pla hom nie veel nie.<\/p><p>\u201cOns Grondwet en Handves van Menseregte se voorwoord spel die buitelyne van ons waardestelsel duidelik uit. In die ruimte van politiek moet ons dit aanspreek.Wat ons egter nie kan nalaat nie, is om te praat oor die welstand van ons mense. Wat gedoen word om hulle te hoor. Beleid sonder toepassing beteken absoluut niks nie.\u201d<\/p><p>Rautenbach, wat al verskeie boeke geskryf het oor arbeid, ekonomiese groei en ekonomiese ontwikkeling, erken hy is \u201c\u2019n vryemark terror\u201d. Hy stem saam die Handves van Menseregte beskerm, maar waarsku tog: \u201cVryheid beteken niks sonder ekonomiese sekerheid nie. Daarom bemoei ek my met met die kwessie oor werkloosheid.Ons kort \u2019n vryemarkstelsel waar jy direk met \u2019n ander kan ooreenkom, \u2019n transaksie sluit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Hy is ook \u2019n voorstaander van \u2019n gedesentraliseerde stelsel, waar dorpe en stede op plaaslike vlak besluite kan neem. Dit sluit aan by sy pleidooi dat die verkiesingstelsel hervorm \u2013 mense moet kan stem vir die kandidaat van hulle keuse, nie soos tans die geval is vir die party en dan word mense namens hulle aangewys nie.\u201d<\/p><p>Zibi neem dit selfs \u2019n stap verder. Hy bepleit dat heeltemal weggedoen word met provinsies. As voorbeeld: slegs metro\u2019s het polisiefunksies, die kleiner munisipaliteite nie. Hulle is dus oorgelaat aan besluitnemers ver verwyderd van hulle af. \u201cDie stelsels praat nie met mekaar nie.\u201d \u201cEn ja\u201d, voeg hy by, \u201com demokrasie te versterk, is om mense die geleentheid te gee om self hulle politieke leiers te kies.\u201d<\/p><p>Als is mooi planne, maar al verander die regering m\u00f4re, en die staatsdiens werk (of eerder werk nie) soos wat tans aan die gang is, het die land geen tree vorentoe gegee nie, s\u00ea Zibi. \u201cDit beteken ook die staatsdienswerkers moet heropgelei word, en die staatsdiens omvorm word.Ons wou in 1994 politieke vryheid h\u00ea, maar dit het nie noodwendig gekom met demokratiese waardes nie.\u201d<\/p><p>Dit is daardie waardes wat hy nou belowe sy beweging sal bring.<\/p><p>\u201cOns kan nie meer net praat van mense se waardigheid herstel nie. Ons kan nie dat mense die toelaes wat hulle aan die lewe hou, eintlik verafsku omdat dit bevestig hulle kan nie self vir hulle gesinne sorg nie.<\/p><p>\u201cOm vir iemand die k-woord te s\u00ea, is nie die eintlike rassisme nie. Rassisme is om mense uit te sluit van ekonomiese groei.\u201d<\/p><ul><li><strong>Titel:<\/strong> <em>Manifesto<\/em><br \/><strong>Deur:<\/strong> Songezo Zibi<br \/><strong>Uitgewer:<\/strong> Pan Macmillan South Africa<\/li><li><strong>Titel:<\/strong><i> Help Yourself South Africa<\/i><br \/><strong>Deur:<\/strong> Frans Rautenbach<br \/><strong>Uitgewer:<\/strong> Footprint Press<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-627d3cc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"627d3cc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e474a3\" data-id=\"2e474a3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-906ee6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"906ee6d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3f5209c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3f5209c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c81b6d4\" data-id=\"c81b6d4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8df4d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f8df4d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RSG_INK-digital-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-48810\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RSG_INK-digital-1.png 1400w, https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RSG_INK-digital-1-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RSG_INK-digital-1-1024x219.png 1024w, https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RSG_INK-digital-1-768x165.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-325aac7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"325aac7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOEKGESPREK \u2019n Make-over vir Suid-Afrika deur\u00a0Jo-Ann FlorisEasyEquities Skrywersfees: The power of usFoto: Mabine Seabe Van die kleine village Mqanduli in die Oos-Kaap kom Songezo Zibi met ideale en groot drome vir \u2019n beter Suid-Afrika. 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