‘People who have to rely on government have lost hope in that very government.’
ANC flag flies during the Gauteng ANC manifesto launch. Photo by Gallo Images/Beeld/ Thapelo Maphakela
According to many young South Africans, socioeconomic inequality and job scarcity, as well as corruption and lack of accountability, have created a view that democracy has not delivered a better life for all. “In the theories about democratic consolidation, we use the nature of the party system in a country to determine how democratic it is,” he said. “With one-party state where there can be no other party that can contest, you’ve got an environment where it’s not legally prescribed for there to be one party. But it happens as a result of the historical centre.”
“The crisis that we face today has shown deadly signs of major national dysfunction. We cannot be a part the change if we were not part of the intergenerational solutions,” Molefe said.Young people were not jumping for joy at the thought of joining politics, as only about one-third of the population had any real voice in the society, while the rest were too poor or easily ignored by those in power, he said.
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