The 1) ditching of a 2) dismal dynasty restores hope to the rainbow nation
ON DECEMBER 18th South Africa’s ruling party picked a leader. The new head of the African National Congress (ANC) is Cyril Ramaphosa, one of the handful of heroes who negotiated the peaceful 3) dismantling of 4) apartheid in the 1990s. In 2019 he will probably be elected president of South Africa. It is absurd—and a sign of how 5) poisonous ANC politics have become—that his rivals within his own party 6) dismiss him as a tool of “white monopoly capital”. That he won the party’s top job anyway shows that there is still hope for South Africa.
The choice should have been simple. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the candidate backed by Jacob Zuma, the country’s current president, promised more of the same. Under Mr Zuma’s administration, corruption 7) thrives, state resources have been 8) looted and democratic institutions have been 9) undermined. By one estimate, as much as 150bn-200bn rand ($11bn-15bn), or 5% of GDP, has been 10) misappropriated. Ms Dlamini-Zuma (who is Mr Zuma’s ex-wife) has remained almost entirely silent about what South Africans call “state capture”. In a 4,200-word speech 11) kicking off her campaign, she did not mention corruption once. Many took this to mean that, if elected, she would shield Mr Zuma from 12) prosecution on the 783 counts of corruption that he faces. She also vowed to 13) curtail the independence of the central bank, put more people on the public 14) payroll, fight the dreaded white monopoly capital and achieve “radical economic transformation” by 15) ramping up state spending and 16) expropriating land, mines and businesses.
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Published: 2017-12-18
Source: The Economist
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