Political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki had some advice for the new government after the election to make the economy grow and solve unemployment.
Last week’s general election did not mark a watershed moment in South Africa, according to political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki.
“We are what is called a capitalist society that puts the interests of the social groups or social classes first. However, we South Africans do not understand how a capitalist society works because we have lived for hundreds of years with a race-based society.“We no longer live in a society where race is the determinant of what happens. It is socioeconomic interests that decide. We have to get out of the mindset that race is a determining factor on how our society works.
“The reality is that the ANC has been losing support, primarily from the black working class in the metros who were voting for the ANC before. However, since the local government elections of 2016, the ANC has been losing the support of the black working class in the metros. “All it stipulates is that members of parliament must meet and elect a president. It does not say that the president must be elected from the party with 51% of the votes. It just says members of parliament must meet and elect a president.”The top five parties in the country are all middle class parties advancing the interest of the middle classes to the exclusion of all the other social groups in society, Mbeki said. “That is what causes instability in South Africa.
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