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RAMAPHOSA: ARE WE MAKING A NEW ODER OR IN AN ECDYSIS

The 54 th ANC National Conference in NASREC was not only watershed in its decisiveness to liquidate slate politics in favour of unity, but also about the introduction of a new ‘post-liberation’ order for South Africa. The ANC led liberation struggle narrative which remains instructional to most of the ANC’s ideational postures on public policy has had its fair share of creating a restitutive paradigm of governance, that was merely trying to coexist with apartheid colonial power rather than fundamentally overturning it. The stealth of colonial power, which is hegemonic in all matters policy change, has since became the vector of analysis on any process that seeks to universalise the objects of a South Africa free of apartheid colonialism and its vestiges. The survival of ‘the established’ most of whom are   non-blacks, procures from South Africa’s leadership a resolve to create a coalition of equal opportunity creation that does not guarantee outcomes but participation. The 100 ...