No New ANC Face Can Salvage South Africa
Speculation about who might succeed Ramaphosa and abate the ANC’s decline reflects shallow thinking when it should be clear that the pursuit of the historically discredited Marxist national democratic revolution (NDR) is the fundamental issue.
No matter who replaces Ramaphosa, as long as the ANC remains wedded to the NDR, the country will continue to embrace failed state status. Motlanthe and Mbeki might project a more acceptable face for the ANC, but they have always endorsed the aims of the NDR along with BEE.
Given the almost daily discoveries and disclosures of fraud, theft, looting, nepotism and dysfunction by ANC figures, the idea that a new face can restore dignity to the ANC’s image defies logic.
It is also naïve to think that the ANC has changed since Oliver Tambo’s leadership. In exile, the ANC was bankrolled by fawning elements in the West and supplied freely with arms by its communist allies. All that has changed is that, having captured the state, the ANC enjoys free rein over its resources while driving the broken state of the economy further into debt.
Liberation and delivery, the two key words since 1994, have only ever meant freedom to empower and enrich the politically connected at the expense of those whose votes were bought with empty promises.
As such, disappointment over the ANC’s failure to learn from its past is just studied ignorance. By its nature, Marxist socialism impoverishes because it wages a war of attrition against free enterprise based on the falsehood that governments create wealth. The appalling fact that unemployment has tripled since 1994 needs no underlining.
The dividends the ANC reaped in 1994 have long since been frittered away. The time has come for it to join the political cemetery of failed parties – the National Party and its predecessor, the United Party.
Only an amalgam of parties that prioritise free enterprise and which reject globalist ideology can salvage South Africa.
