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Today it's easy to assume that the massive inequalities, unemployment, poverty, and lack of social transformation are a result of "corruption". That's the main line being pushed by those who enjoy the benefits of the system as it stands. The truth is it's policy not behaviour...
When developing countries were expanding their state's activities in their economies in order to reduce concentration of wealth in private hands, end exploitation & ensure fairer allocation & distribution of scarce resources, the ANC chose a rightist, neoliberal policy path...
ANC cadres intentionally "misread the room" and insisted that the "balance of economic and political power at both the global and local level was leaning towards privatisation, deregulation, and trade liberalisation"
The ANC’s neoliberal economic policies have resulted in
disaster for the vast majority of South Africa’s Black majority. Unemployment and economic inequalities
associated with neoliberal policies continue to
push even more Africans into the poverty trap
disaster for the vast majority of South Africa’s Black majority. Unemployment and economic inequalities
associated with neoliberal policies continue to
push even more Africans into the poverty trap
For 26 years, Black people have been surviving the destruction of neoliberal policies adopted by the ANC-led
government which has resulted in the entrenchment
of capitalism which in turn dictates to the public
sector its profit interest against the poor Black majority
government which has resulted in the entrenchment
of capitalism which in turn dictates to the public
sector its profit interest against the poor Black majority
The ANC has protected capital as the only way the state engages with its people. The state effectively gets permission from private capital. This has led to over accumulation by the unelected private sector because of lack of radical transformative policy alternatives
The ANC has deliberately allowed the state to be separated from the people & allowed both government and civil society to fall fully under the control of private money. Now the state is fully dependent on foreign markets & private sector which are naturally hostile to the poor
The ANC's pro-privatisation policies are so entrenched and followed so religiously that they've forced even devout socialists to devolve into aspiring 'bourgeoisies', because that has been framed as the only way one can achieve a semblance of a dignified livelihood
Right now socialism, a system where the means of production are the property of the community is seen as inherently stupid and unworkable. This mentality is forcefully perpetuated by those who currently hold the means of production, and why wouldn't they?
Those who control the money, which is the primary means of production, have ensured that even if the ANC was to be voted out, whatever takes its place will not stray too far from the policies currently in place, no matter how left-leaning it looks. Black man you are on your own!
