Correction: The ANC emerged in 1912.
Let me say also that my previous narrative relates to the ANC as a liberation movement. When it became a political party the revolutionary spirit of the ANC changed. We know that the ANC in government has abandoned some of the earlier ideals.There is a rush to get rich overnight. Now I do appreciate the view that since Whites remained generally in control of the economy, a Black bourgeoisie would at least diversify the landscape and deny Whites the feeling of exclusivity and some kind of divine- sanctioned manifest destiny. But this has happened at the expense of programs that would more swiftly and radically reduce, income disparity.
There is also a new timidity- absent in the revolutionary years. To date, the ANC has not been able to bring about genuine land reform, and the people whose ancestors lost their land to settler colonists remain landless a generation after. We shall see what would happen with billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa in power. His recent statement on land reform may be an election gimmick- or maybe not.
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