What comes after the ANC? - We need to reimagine South Africa without the ANC and if we do not, we will either live with false hope or the country’s crisis will intensify
Two paradoxical doubts loom over the current political moment: one, a crisis of confidence in the ANC; the other, a crisis of confidence in what replaces the ANC. Both doubts stem from one source: a collective failure to re-imagine South Africa after the ANC — to truly consider what will follow the ANC’s final roar. Failure to re-imagine will consign South Africa toConsider, first, the scale of the present crisis.
Instead, they would fashion innovate new constitutional paths, chart bold new economic futures, uproot apartheid’s pernicious afterclap, build a dynamic political system and attack multiple social ills. They would learn from, and preserve, those parts of the old country that succeeded but they would abandon those parts that failed.
Sure, this thought experiment is a pipe dream. But it is not designed to be true. Rather, the experiment should upset our deeply held assumptions to spur an urgent sense of national self-examination. For one thing, the ANC’s fall could signal the rise of South Africa’s right. Take the worst elements of the DA, the Freedom Front Plus, ActionSA, the Inkatha Freedom Party, the African Christian Democratic Party, the Patriotic Alliance, the African Transformation Movement and other smaller parties. Now add the swelling rise of anti-African-migrant sentiment to the mix.
The more hope that people invest in the decaying ANC, the more their hopes will be dashed. Yet I can already smell the false hope that will permeate every available airwave should Ramaphosa prevail at the ANC’s upcoming conference in December.
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