Blueprint for socialism or capitalism? One year ahead of the 70th anniversary of the congress of the people, the political landscape has been changed decisively by the outcome of the 29th May elections. The party that made the freedom charter its manifesto for the mobilisation of the masses, lost its majority for the first time […]
The ANC’s December congress re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader. The ruling class faces a crisis of political representation. This is ultimately a product of the crisis of capitalism and sharp tensions between the classes.
The 2021 local government elections (LGE21) outcome marks the end of an era. For the first time since 1994 the ANC, the “party of liberation” has crashed below 50%. The working class has punished the ANC in successive elections over the last decade, but never like this before.
The very system of tenders, whether they are technically corrupt or not, involves a massive diversion of wealth away from the working class and poor.
Ramaphosa’s government is a bosses’ government through to its bone marrow. Ramaphosa’s first budget ensured that the poor and the working class will pay the main price for capitalism’s failures.
Inside two months following his election as ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa has realised the ambition he reportedly set himself whilst still at high school – to become the country’s president.
Irrespective of the outcome of a possible court process, however, the ANC’s 54th national conference has failed spectacularly to resolve the underlying divisions in the factional war for control of the ANC.
3 August 2016, will go down at an electoral level, as a turning point in the ANC’s post apartheid history – a point at which the arrow of its political fortunes is now firmly pointing south.
The 3 August local government elections come against the background of the worst crisis the ruling capitalist class has faced since the ANC came to power.
