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There have been moments when opportunities for a revival of the socialist Left looked promising. The late 1990s saw the flourishing of a range of social justice struggles, which began to pose a challenge to the ANC government’s shift to neoliberalism.
The struggle against austerity, against wage cuts and retrenchments in the public sector, and the struggle against corruption are intimately linked. They provide the bridge for building the necessary worker / community alliance.
Even before the arrival of Covid-19, South Africa faced a national health crisis. Some of the most important features of this crisis are the very high burden of disease, enormous disparities in health and its social determinants, deep inequities between public and private sectors, a crisis in human resources for health, and weak mechanisms for popular participation in health.
From the earliest days of post-Apartheid South Africa, major corporations have corrupted the state by offering bribes in order to get lucrative contracts.
Over 10 million South Africans cannot find work. 12 million by some methods of calculation. At least 38% of the workforce.
We should make a serious effort to understand the reasons behind the public disinterest in supporting progressive economic ideas.
Who are the murder and rape victims in South Africa? What are gangs, if not enclaves of violence responding to exclusion from the world of work and income?
In the real world where we live, poverty is increasing; real people are going hungry; real people have even less to eat than they did last year; and the year before.
Ramaphosa has made it clear that he is firmly committed to the same old, same old – Minerals Energy Finance complex.
Earn dollars from digging minerals from the ground and getting them out of the country.