By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
South Africa’s current crisis is rooted in the road wrongly taken 1994, when the African National Congress and its allies agreed not to upset the corporate order, in exchange for one-person, one-vote. Those chickens are now coming home to roost, as the ANC enforces the corporate order and workers reject union leaders who, they believe, work for the bosses.
What Glen Ford writes here is certainly true, but it would be helpful to contextualize it in the world situation of 1994 — the collapse of the USSR and the socialist camp, the end of global material and political solidarity for liberation movements, and the imperialist offensive.