MALAYS need to develop a different value system in order to succeed as affirmative policies alone cannot work without a change in mindset, said Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The 93-year-old Bersatu chairman will deliver the party’s policy speech at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre tonight.

Dr Mahathir, who replaced the New Economic Policy that began in 1971 with the New Development Policy and has fought for economic parity for the Malays since the 1960s, had previously used the Umno general assemblies to critique the Malays for what he terms as “laziness”.

He believed his “hard truth” was necessary despite getting slammed by academics who said that his stereotype was “irrelevant and harmful”. – December 29, 2018.