HOME

Wesson argues that a secret ballot in the vote of no confidence against Zuma will deepen corruption and open space for vote-buying. He called for mass based mobilization to force MPs to vote Zuma out in the open.

In this statement Cosatu called no its members not to support the Save SA march organised for the 7 April 2017 because Save SA are agents of monopoloy capital. Cosatu restates that monopoly capital is still the strategic enemy of the working class.

In this statement Cosatu rejects the call for President Zuma and the entire cabinet to resign, and for national general elections. Cosatu’s support for the call for Zuma to stand down is to save the ANC from defeat in 2019.

Karl Cloete from Numsa asks the question of ‘which class force stand to gain the most’ from the current struggles calling for Zuma to fall. He calls for the working class not to replace one oppressive ruling class for another one.

In this article Numsa traces the origins of the current political crisis, looks at the capitulation of the leadership of the ANC to white monopoly capital and provides an analysis of the struggle between Zuma and Pravin Gordhan. Numsa argues that this struggle is a case of two factions of the capitalist class struggling against each other.

In this statement Groundwork supports the calls for President Zuma to step down, but argues that the corruption of the Zuma administration has its roots in the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) policy adopted by the ANC in 1996. The statement argues that there is no clear alternative to Zuma, and that Groundwork puts its faith in people mobilising for democracy.

In this article Ahmed Jooma and Shaheen Khan argue for the need for working class intervention in the current campaign for Zuma to fall, and that the working class must form a left bloc that will be part of the campaign that includes all the forces calling for Zuma’s downfall.

Rating Agencies are being used by the ruling class to discipline governments and force them to keep to neoliberal policies that support monopoly capital.

The transition to democracy in South Africa deepened the structural inequalities inherited from apartheid, and notwithstanding the democratic gains the transition has reinforced the power and wealth of the apartheid ruling classes. The current crisis in South Africa owes its origins to these features of the transition.

The struggles between President Zuma and Pravin Gordhan has been portrayed as anti-corruption struggles against one individual and one family. The reality is that what the struggle is about attempts by a black middle class that has been blocked from accessing the commanding heights of the economy, and a white monopoly capitalist class that still exercises enormous power in South African society.