Mantashe: We inherited a corrupt value system
Natasha Marrian, Mail and Guardian
Apr 16 2010 15:56

South Africa inherited a "corrupt and a wrong value system", which it was currently managing, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Friday."... What we inherited actually corrupted us and therefore we are actually managing a corrupt system and a wrong value system.
"... The new order [after 1994] ... inherited a well-entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society as a whole," he said, delivering the inaugural Violet Seboni memorial lecture at the Johannesburg City Hall.
Quoting former president Thabo Mbeki, Mantashe said: "Within the context of the development of capitalism in our country, individual acquisition and material wealth produced through oppression and exploitation of the black majority became the defining social value in the organisation of white society."
This was historic he said.



