South Africa’s ANC, like the Tories, rides the ‘tiger’ of populism - Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path
The UK will soon have its fifth prime minister in six years since the country, led by a faction in its oldest party, took the populist decision to leave the EU. It’s a cost of the populist route that South African political parties should pay special attention to.
Populism, as Winston Churchill said in 1938, is like riding on the back of a tiger from which one dares not get off because the tiger is hungry. There are no quick-win, easy fixes to South Africa’s deteriorating socio-economic conditions. We need difficult and indeed unpopular decisions. Our political players, including our weak and porous opposition parties, all pander to populist impulse, some fanning the flames of xenophobia.
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