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Here in South Africa we see a state which fails to function at the most basic level. It fails to provide water, electricity, functioning sewage systems – the most fundamental utilities.
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.
After 25 years of democracy, more than one child out of every four in South Africa is undernourished and has stunted growth.
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.
As lockdowns become the main strategy of governments to contain the spread of the virus, the onset of a new global recession will accelerate.
…Youth unemployment is hovering close to 70% and the unemployment rate for women is 42%. A generation is growing up who have no thought that they will ever have a job.
Instead of a flourishing society freed from racism, division and violence, post Apartheid South Africa is a society of social decay.