30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY A DREAM BETRAYED!.

NOT YET UHURU!!!.

30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY A DREAM BETRAYED!.

It was exactly on this day the 27th of April in 1994 when millions of South Africans stood in long queues to cast their votes to usher in the  democratic dispensation . For the Afrikan majority who are the natives of this land it was for the first time that they had a right to elect their own government in their own land, as we know they had been excluded from this exercise by Colonialism\ Apartheid which had always maintained that Black people are subhuman . The day the 27th of April 1994 came or was a culmination of many and different types of struggles and negotiations. Thousands if not millions of Black people died and some were misplaced in the struggle for this right, the right to be able to determine who governs them, how they are governed , ect. However, as I will attempt to elucidate this point in the coming paragraphs our struggle was not merely about the right to vote but it was the struggle for total liberation, this is what this article will seek do, take stock of how far have we gone in attaining that total liberation.

Unfortunately any attempt to take stock of how far have we gone with this project is always clouded with emotions and sentiments as any criticism is always viewed as being ungrateful and not appreciative of where the country comes from. Those in the governing African National Congress and its Alliance partners are offended by any attempts to provide critical analysis of their governance ,they always make comparisons with the Apartheid government. I am of the view that drawing comparisons with the Apartheid government is not helpful at all because this is a regime which was only concerned with catering for the needs of the minority at the exclusion of the majority which are Afrikan. Therefore I propound that we must abandon this framework, instead we should be gauging our progress against countries who went through the same passage as ours, and are endowed with the richness of mineral resources that South Africa has at her disposal.

With today being the 27th of April 2024 which marks the 30 years since that historic day, it then compels us to take stock of our progress. The millions of South Africans who engaged in the struggle against apartheid did so with the hope that this country would be an anti-thesis of the Colonial-Apartheid .The 1994 moment presented an amount of possibilities and options, that we chose the neo-liberal route is one of the betrayals of the 1994 dream by the African National Congress. The fact that the governing African National Congress went the Washington Consensus route and abandoned the Reconstructions and Development Program is the reason why the Colonial-Apartheid economic structure is still intact. This continued Apartheid economic structure has infact enriched white people more that colonialism-apartheid did, you then contrast this with the fact that majority of Black people have been thrown into the ranks of the poor and destitute under the democratic dispensation. This is not my imaginative creation, you can refer to all official stats for this.

30 years after the 27th of April 1994 the majority of the land is still in the hands of the land thieves , the land thieves who came here murdered and enslaved the Natives. The stats about the land make a mockery of the 1994 moment, it makes a mockery because the ANC's dismal failure to return the land to its rightful owners simply means we were only struggling for the right to vote. I mean people do not eat votes, people need their land so they can produce their own food and engage in all other economic activities not as mere laborers . Majority of Black people are languishing in poverty, this is despite their country being rich with land, minerals. It is disconcerting that majority of Black people are dying of hunger while the few(majority of them being white) are dying of overeating . Even the most basic things such as water and electricity are now proving to be a distant dream for the majority of Black people. The filthy politicians and their handlers have turned water and electricity into their gold. They feast at the expense of the masses.

No messiah is coming to liberate the Black masses, but the masses must take it upon themselves to wrestle the power away from the White Monopoly Capital and its surrogates in the Political Class. 

This is the only avenue to revive the 1994 dream which ahs been betrayed and turned into a freedom for the few and hell for the majority.

NOT YET UHURU!!!.

By

Teboho Sekhosana

Political and Social Activist

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