Patterns of equality in South Africa

I agree with Tadjudeen (Pambazuka News 154: Great Expectations on South Africa). For the vast majority of Africans in South Africa, the poor are getting poorer. The ANC promised to return 30% of stolen land to landless people. Unfortunately, the ANC has only returned 2.5%. In the meantime, water has been privatised, making it difficult for poor people to access bugfree pipeborne water. This privatisation is already causing a rise in water born diseases such as cholera.

Families are unable to educate their children in a cultural setting, with a syllabuses which can meet their cultural and employment needs. Yet, South Africa is up for sale. Many rich Europeans can find land and or property for 1 million rand, in the midst of starvation, increasing HIV sufferers and unemployment. The expropriation of land, opportunities and resources from the many to service the few "indigenous middle class/elites" is a reflection that, as always, capitalism always serves the interests of the few.

How can the ANC continue to fail the vast majority with shallow rhetoric? One of these days, the disgruntled masses will get very fed up and turn on the very leadership which used to sound so radical and who was so in favour of addressing 400 years of injustice, suffering and servitude. Now, they talk and talk and talk and do not deliver!