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South Africa looks the way it does today because the ANC entered government with the belief that because it had good intentions, therefore it was wise and that the land would prosper because of it.
But, as George RR Martin put it, “People who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a wise king.”
The ANC, like many liberation movements, mistook its moral capital for institutional capability. The belief was that because its cause was righteous, the outcomes would be righteous.
But real governance in a globalised and unequal world demands making hard decisions and the ability to wrestle with entrenched power structures.
But instead of taking the system head on, the ANC outsourced economic policy to corporate technocrats and Apartheid strategists, hoping that good results would follow its mild manners.
But the thing is that the “Transition” wasn’t a fresh start. It was a compromise constrained by racist elites, greedy international capital and cruel neoliberalism. Moral clarity alone was never going to overcome those forces.
In this sense, the ANC of the 1990s fell into the trap Martin identified: they had good intentions, but no plan for power beyond reconciliation and showing off how respectable they could be.
This experience illustrates what political scientists call the “liberation movement paradox” where the very qualities that make a movement effective in resistance, such as moral clarity and charismatic leadership become limitations when it’s time to govern.
This is because the skills needed to mobilise against oppression differ significantly from those required to manage complex economic systems and bureaucracies.
Good intentions, while necessary, are insufficient without strategic thinking. But the ANC fell into the trap of becoming what Mahmood Mamdani called a “movement government”, prioritising loyalty and togetherness over outcomes.
Like Thomas Sankara warned, “You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future”.
For 35 years, the ANC has been desperate to appear sane over disruptive. This desire to appear “respectable” to international markets and White South Africans prevented the kind of bold restructuring that true transformation required.
In the end, the ANC chose to be admired rather than feared and in doing so, surrendered the possibility of becoming truly historic.
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