The ANC emerged as a reformist, social-democratic force, but a defender of capitalism. It aroused enormous expectations of social change among the poorest and most oppressed in the country, but after 30 years of ANC governments, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world and the racial aspect is one of the determining factors, in a society where 10% of the population owns more than 80% of the wealth, according to World Bank reports. "South Africa, the largest country in the SACU (Southern African Customs Union), is the most unequal country in the world in a list of 164 countries," the institution said in a report titled "Inequalities in Southern Africa."
Previous reports coincided in placing the African country in first place in that category, but 30 years after the end of apartheid, "race continues to be a key factor in high inequality in South Africa due to its impact on education and the labor market," the World Bank said, while the racial factor is responsible for 41% of income inequality and 30% in education. Other Southern African countries such as Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia rank high on the list, making the region the most unequal in the world, according to the institution.
However, during these 30 years of ANC rule, while millions sank into poverty, some of Africa's most important millionaires emerged, such as Christo Wiese, Johann Rupert, Nicky Oppenheimer, Patrice Motsepe, Koos Bekker and Michiel Le Roux. Most of them appear on the Forbes list of millionaires with gigantic fortunes, while the people suffer from unemployment, poverty, and lack of opportunities. This unjust situation opened a crisis in the ANC based on a growing disillusionment of the workers and the people who have seen their living standards fall in the last 30 years, which explains the drop in support that the ANC has suffered in the last elections, which forced Ramaphosa to seek a government agreement with the Democratic Alliance (AD) party. led by white and pro-business leaders who defend capitalism.
Let's defeat the GUN of Ramaphosa and Steenhuisen!
Will he be "a good or a bad son"? has been a joke that has circulated in South Africa in the last two weeks, playing on the initials of the Government of National Unity. While the capitalist political parties began to negotiate agreements to establish the GUN, the workers and the people have shown their frustration and rupture with the ANC. We should expect nothing from the Ramaphosa - Steenhuisen government, it is an enemy government of the workers and the people established to defend the interests of the richest 1% of capitalist South Africa.
The break of millions with the ANC is a positive step, an advance in the consciousness of the workers and the people with the social democratic reformism that is functional to capitalism. The crisis of the ANC is part of the global crisis of the left that is rejected by the workers and peoples of the world for supporting and integrating capitalist coalitions and governments. This treacherous, imperialist and capitalist left consolidates racism and the exploitation of the South African people, and is therefore rejected. Nor is the movement of Julius Malema, of the Fighters for Economic Freedom, an alternative that is a movement that places itself to the left of the ANC to capitalize on its crisis, but refuses to fight for a workers' and people's government.
From La Marx International we support all the struggles that the people of South Africa will carry out against the Ramaphosa - Steenhuisen government. Along with this, we salute all those comrades who have turned their backs on the leaders of the ANC, and we call for the worldwide regroupment of revolutionaries to fight for a socialist South Africa, on the road to global socialism.
