rush I think your statements are rushed...
sure the eleven years have nothing to do with corruption and what have you. One thing you need to note that seperates the ANC and NP in terms of governance is that during the old regime corruption was there but no one knew about it(meaning citizens never got to find out) but with this government all corruption is exposed and punished, hell JZ was fired not because he was found giulty of it but becoz he was too close to it. You mentioned the EC, how many people have been arrested for mismanagement & corruption? how many have been dismissed? is it a secret that the EC has the worst management?
to blame the government for what poeple do is naive, to say the least. People are prone to corruption, like it's said, money corrupts. Very few people have intergrity, the minute they see an opportunity to make extra cash with minimal effort they jump to it, check the quick fix schemes to get an idea of what I mean. our government is doing all it can to prevent plus punish such crimes against the people by the people. a hard thing to do, but it's being done none the less.
and to equate BEE, AA to apartheid is LUDACRIS. Aparthied as a system stated that whites are not equal with no one they are superior to everyone, Coloured, Indian or African and as such we were not to be treated with any respect. The system engineered an education system to teach us about where and what our place was, to teach us to be servants to the master(whites). Even today older folks still submit themselves to whites becoz it's what they were taught, they frown when we(the youngters) stand up for ourselves against umlungu, they sure do know their "place". we are in the townships becoz we were placed there. Now show me any lagislation that seeks to belittle whites. show me any lagislation that promotes Africans as the superior "race". Where in the BEE policy does it say white people should not own the houses they leave in? where does is say they should be restricted to a certain area and need authorisation to leave that area? where does it say they are not supposed to own land?(and bare in mind they brought no land to Africa), where does it say/imply that they should not own businesses?
BEE seeks to address the imbalance in economic power. It would be naive to think South Africa is not a capitalistic country becoz we are, but when Africans with connections expliot what capitalism is about they are cricified instead of being commended. If you want to improve your living condition go out and do that, nothing is preventing you, well except CAPITAL and guess who owns CAPITAL in South Africa? the minority (read whites) and they are still pulling strings to make sure we don't progress economically. They are releasing "their" capital to the few "darkies" to control the wealth distribution to blacks, hey!! we can't afford to have a lot of darkies with inflated balance sheets now can we?