The Two Defining Challenges Facing South Africa: SouthAfrica BRICS
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meeting with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin .Stagnation at home and fence-sitting abroad are costing the country dearly, and the costs are only rising.is facing two fundamental challenges, one internal, the other external. Its response to both - or failure to respond to either - will define its future prosperity and position in the world. A policy of indecisive drift will not resolve either.
Externally, South Africa's efforts to sit on the fence between East and West - as it sees them - is being made increasingly uncomfortable by the war in Ukraine. Economically, its fortunes lie overwhelmingly with the liberal world economy. Politically, the old alliances with Russia and China still carry weight. The recent row with the US, threatening trade, and the invitation to President Vladimir Putin for the BRICS Summit suggest a crunch is coming.
This crisis illustrates that the ruling African National Congress has become less a coalition of constituencies and more a patchwork of self-interested cliques who are reaping benefits from the state and passing them on exclusively to their loyal clients. Rent-seeking rather than service delivery has become the order of the day, and a reason to hang on to power. Buying off those cliques to keep himself in the presidency seems to be all Cyril Ramaphosa can manage.
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