The ANC And The UK's Tory Party Share The Same Culture Of Entitled Corruption.
1. Both parties have been in power for so long that they can’t blame anyone else for their screw-ups.
Conservative Party: The current ruling party won the 2019 general election and has been in power for over 13 years.
The ANC: The current ruling party of South Africa won the 1994 general election and has been in power for 29 years.
2. Both the ANC and The Conservative Party, having been elected to govern competently, have overseen a litany of disasters.
Conservative Party: Brexit. Austerity. The slow destruction of the NHS. Almost bankrupting the nation. Wasting billions on poorly managed projects that their own leadership, membership and associated friends profited from.
The ANC: Facilitated by former President Jacob Zuma, much of South Africa has been paralysed by corruption, notably the demise of Eskom, the largest producer of electricity in Africa. Endemic corruption at all levels of government resulting in the near collapse of public health and education systems. The capture of major state institutions, including Eskom, Transnet (South Africa’s rail, port and pipeline company) and SARS, the South African tax authority. State capture of government institutions resulted in an inability to provide reliable transport for those who need it most, Eskom’s inability to keep the lights on, or SARS’ inability to identify and recoup illicit financial flows. Conservative estimates are that well over £1 billion (R20 billion) was lost through corruption and state capture. The State Capture Commission, established by the then president Jacob Zuma has recommended that he should face charges of "corruption and racketeering".
3. Both parties use the issue of race to shore up their base.
Conservative Party: The tories do this with immigration and refugees and playing the race card with its own black citizens. The tories by denying the legitimacy of thousands of passports belonging to citizens from the Caribbean (the wind rush generation)) who have been in the country for decades and styling their ability to work and claim health benefits effectively eradicated their citizenship. All red meat to keep the reactionary party loyalists happy.
The focus on any incidents of racism from a minutia of a fraction of a politically sidelined white minority, the pathetic attempts to control murderous xenophobia directed at foreign workers, the fanning of notions that wealthy non-south African blacks are taking all the good jobs and hoses from black South Africans, wants to ban Indians from working in the country, all part of a crumbling attempt to deflect political accountability from the ANC government- and keep ANC elites sgainfully employed.
4 The respective current leaders of the ANC and The Conservative Party are amongst their nation's wealthiest citizens.
The Conservative Party: R.Sunak’s wealth is worth is estimated at $850 million,
The ANC: Cyril Ramaphosa's wealth is estimated at $450 Million.
Both leaders claim to have the common touch despite being accused of being too rich to comprehend the daily lives of their constituents:
a) Sunak was educated at expensive private schools, and has acknowledged he didn’t have any working-class friends when growing up. His favourite TV shows are “Emily In Paris” and “Bridgerton”; both shows feature pretty people who wear tight-fitting clothes in pursuit of love, money, status and good clothes. Hm.
b) Ramaphosa recently burnished his socialist credentials by allowing unknown thieves to take 5 million dollars from his home and redistribute the money amongst their people. Back in the 80s, when he was secretary of the NUM, there is no record of Cyril appealing to the international community with the words: ”Please, help me and the ANC bring down apartheid, so I can become wealthier than the nasty white man I’m working for.”
5. Both parties don’t care about their poor people.
The Conservative Party: Has reduced the NHSs to rubble and reduced social benefits to meaningless junk.
The ANC: The poor in South Africa have a vote but don’t have a vote in the only sphere of influence the ANC elite cares about - the companies and banks the ANC elites own, manage or profit from. Anyone who doesn’t have a share in these companies and can’t kick out the CEO or reduce the company's shares or dividends is irrelevant. Clearly, the great majority of South Africa's population falls into this category and, as a consequence, is utterly screwed. (The ANC presides over a democracy that is failing the 18.2 million people living in extreme poverty (about 30% of all South Africans). Unemployment is now about 35%, the highest recorded level since surveys began.)
6. Both parties are committed to extinguishing their historical political opposition and targets
The Conservative Party: The Tories spend millions painting the labour party as social criminals and ideologically driven work lunatics who will destroy the nation's bank balance and cultural values. An out-of-control housing market that has destroyed the life opportunities of young workers, a broken education system that is not fit for purpose, an underfunded health system that is being broken by a parallel coalition of parasitic private providers, with no investment in manufacturing, and a lack of easily accessible vocational training hubs to meet modern trends - all intentional. Mission almost accomplished.
The ANC: The ANC no longer sings shoot the Boer. They don’t need to. They’ve merely committed the Boer and their descendants to long-term unemployment, cultural irrelevance and political impotence. Mission almost accomplished.
7 Both parties have run out of steam and require a period out of power to renew their policies and direction.
No further explanation is needed.