Clem Sunter: Economic apartheid still exists

Scenario planner Clem Sunter.

Scenario planner Clem Sunter said on Wednesday that he is as passionate about economic freedom in South Africa as Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, and called for an economic conference to find a solution.

“I believe in economic freedom as passionately as Julius Malema, but it’s just that my type of economic freedom has to do with entrepreneurs and opening up our whole economy,” he told Fin24.

“It’s not about nationalising the mines and the banks, which I don’t think will add one extra degree of economic freedom to your ordinary citizen,” said the author of the best-selling Fox Trilogy. “What will (help) is if we have a proper platform, which supports entrepreneurs.”

Economic apartheid still exists
Sunter said South Africa has succeeded in ending political apartheid, but has yet to finish off economic apartheid.


“We got rid of political apartheid but have not gotten rid of economic apartheid,” he said. “Malema and I both agree that we need economic freedom.” He called on leaders to host an economic Codesa to ensure the country stops meandering into what he terms the second division.
“We’re at the second crossroads - the economic crossroads,” he said.