'We South Africans are resilient, maybe we're too resilient. We forget… too quickly.' A year on since violence led to more than 300 deaths, South Africa is still wrestling with political and economic challenges.
One year after what South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa called a violent "insurrection" that led to more than 300 deaths, the country is still wrestling with profound political and economic challenges and enduring fears of more unrest.
Zuma still enjoys the support of a left-wing faction in the governing African National Congress which has also been linked to the corruption that flourished during his presidency. But it reflects South Africa's extraordinary capacity to absorb and tolerate crises - including staggering levels of corruption, record-breaking unemployment, a culture of impunity, and widespread infrastructural collapse - without showing much apparent urgency about the need to change course.
The failure of what the president saw as an uprising - largely due to local communities rallying to protect themselves and the deployment of thousands of soldiers - gifted him a valuable opportunity to seize the initiative and to strike back against the forces of chaos in South Africa.The encouraging news is that a years-long public inquiry into the corruption of the Zuma era. It provided prosecutors with mountains of evidence for future cases.
South Africa breathed a collective sigh of relief when the soft-spoken union leader turned businessman pushed the scandal-scarred Zuma out of office in 2018. "Cyril [Ramaphosa] is not the solution. People in the ANC know what reforms are required, but they can't bring themselves to carry them out," says Songezo Zibi, a prominent intellectual and political activist.President Cyril Ramaphosa went to Durban last year to see the impact of the violence for himselfIt is deep winter here in South Africa, with nightly temperatures often dropping below zero on the high plains around Johannesburg.
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