NU CAPAV<\/b><\/p>\n
When you knock on the door of a politician from a mainstream political party in Mauritius offering your services to the nation, THIS IS WHAT HE IS MOST PROBABLY THINKING:<\/p>\n
A Sino-Mauritian \u2013 you can never be anything more than a \u2018best loser\u2019<\/p>\n
A Franco-Mauritian \u2013 a business man \u2013 if he wants something I can get a cut, if he doesn\u2019t play ball I will ruin him by bringing in an Indian competitor<\/p>\n
A Creole \u2013 do you have influence, then I\u2019ll promise you \u2018compensation for slavery\u2019 just to get your vote. No influence? Then know your place \u2013 at the bottom of the pile!<\/p>\n
An Indo-Mauritian \u2013 are you a Vaish\u2026 you have leadership potential!\u00a0 Are you a Ravived? \u2013 we need your votes; you might become Minister of Culture, befitting your lowly status. Are you a Tamil, Telugu, Marathi? We\u2019ll find a way to keep you onside\u2026<\/p>\n
A Muslim \u2013 do you have a following in Plaine Verte? If not, what good are you?<\/p>\n
A person of mixed heritage \u2013 what can I do with you?<\/p>\n
NU CAPAV end this nonsense which is holding our country back.<\/p>\n
We need a NEW GENERATION of politicians so that when we knock on their doors they will see\u2026.<\/p>\n
A MAURITIAN! And the question they will ask is what are your skills and experience, how can you benefit your nation, not what family or community you belong to\u2026..<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
NU FATIGE<\/b><\/p>\n
This is what we need to tell our politicians:<\/p>\n
LABOUR \u2013 NU FATIGE \u2013 we want no more rabid ethnicisation of our body politic. NU FATIGE with your family \u2018aristocracies\u2019 who by accident of birth think they are automatically members of an elite group destined to rule over us. NU FATIGE of your rampant corruption.<\/p>\n
MMM \u2013 You once had a great vision but you lost your way. NU FATIGE with your scientific communalism. You had a chance to transform our social and political landscape. You bottled it.<\/p>\n
MSM\/PSMD \u2013Just because you win an election does not mean that your uncle or son or petits copains of all descriptions deserve a Ministerial portfolio or an Ambassadorship. We don\u2019t want family trusts or invisible networks amassing public funds for private misuse. We want to live in a MERITOCRACY not a KLEPTOCRACY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NU CAPAV When you knock on the door of a politician from a mainstream political party in Mauritius offering your services to the nation, THIS IS WHAT HE IS MOST PROBABLY THINKING: A Sino-Mauritian \u2013 you can never be anything more than a \u2018best loser\u2019 A Franco-Mauritian \u2013 a business man \u2013 if he wants… Continue reading NU FATIGE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}