The blame for our current crisis must be laid at the door of the ANC — but it can still redeem itself
The ruling but beleaguered ANC first began talking about its “renewal” at its 1997 Stellenbosch electoral conference. This timeline is important to note because it was three years after the party had decisively won the watershed 1994 elections.
Although the ANC’s neoliberal policies from the outset in 1994, the devastating impacts of Covid-19 and the recent mass looting and destruction of vitally important infrastructure has considerably worsened all the racial, class and gender disparities we inherited from the apartheid era, what is indisputable is the continued dominance of the economy by the white elite, which explains why many big shopping malls were attacked in this month’s riots.
But the most striking feature of the ANC’s renewal discourse is that it never focuses on policy matters, which I argue should be the heart of any serious renewal in the party.
And why did the ANC government adopt and implement the Municipal Systems Act of 2000, which for the first time made provision for the commercialisation, corporatisation and commodification of basic services in townships? Any study of the unstoppable avalanche of protests in this country since June 2004, which has notoriously made us both the protest capital of the world and its most unequal country , will make it clear that we have seen a rapid rise in township protests since the early 2000s.
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