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I’ll never get tired of saying this: The problem with South Africa is not the ANC, it’s the system the ANC is governing under.
You can remove them, and that’s fine and emotionally satisfying, but whoever you put in there will produce the same outcomes.
The ANC is the manager, not the architect of a system designed to preserve capital mobility, satisfy global investors, and discipline the masses.
When we say “the system”, it’s not some abstract concepts, we’re referring to policies like the Reserve Bank’s inflation targeting, the manufactured fear of budget deficits, fiscal austerity, free capital flows, WTO trade liberalisation, etc.
Swapping the ANC for the DA, EFF, or MKP within the same system would reproduce similar outcomes because the underlying logic of profitability for capital over people’s needs remains.
Even parties like the EFF, despite their radical rhetoric, will face the same constraints of capital flight and credit rating downgrades if they attempt radical redistribution.
It should be clear that unemployment, inequality, and crime are not the results of poor policy implementation, but systemic outcomes of an economic model that excludes the majority.
For example, inflation targeting keeps interest rates high, stifling job creation; free capital flows allow wealth to leave the country instead of being reinvested locally; while WTO rules prevent protectionist policies that could revive local manufacturing.
The SARB literally exists to keep unemployment as high as possible without causing societal collapse because that’s seen as the best way to safeguard financial investments!
What SA needs is not just regime change, but system change.
Yes, Zimbabwe was disciplined harshly for resistance and Venezuela’s economy is made to “scream” for daring to resist, but neither of those countries had the luxury of BRICS membership and the opportunities this presents.
For instance, the BRICS Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement offer South Africa potential funding outside IMF/World Bank dictatorship.
Trade in local currencies would reduce reliance on the US dollar and ease balance-of-payments pressures.
If leveraged aggressively, this would weaken the power of Western financial markets and credit ratings agencies to discipline SA policy.
In short, unless there’s a break away from the thinking shaped in the 1990s, every new party will end up governing like the old one, or worse.
Blaming the ANC alone lets the system off the hook. And the system is what’s killing the people
Yes, the ANC needs to go, but instead of asking “which party can govern better within these constraints”, we should be asking “how do we change the constraints themselves?”
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