OP-ED: Beyond Saints and Sinners: Ramaphosa’s South Africa (Part 1) By Adam Habib AdHabb
should be requisite reading for all those interested in building a better world. It not only lays bare the Italianate character of Brazilian politics, but it also demonstrates the dangers of developing political strategies from the perspective of a world one wishes existed, rather than the one that really exists. It chronicles the rise and fall of the Workers’ Party in Brazil through a review of the political administrations and strategies of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
But the similarity is increasingly in the serpentine character of our politics – the corruption, the loss of trust of communities, the factionalisation of the political system, and the political trade-offs that these necessitate. This context requires a South African Lula with an agenda of radical pragmatism.
The same has happened in the National Prosecuting Agency , other security agencies, and the South African Revenue Services . None of this is, of course, happening at a pace that satisfies South Africa’s long-abused citizens but it is underway in a patient, methodically executed programme of action. There were some other mistakes. Violence continues to dominate everyday South African life. Community and union struggles regularly turn violent. The EFF has repeatedly broken laws by trashing businesses on one or other pretext. Yet the police have not taken a firm stance in any of these cases.
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