South Africa: Why South Africa Can't Deliver On the Social Contract Set Out in Its Constitution

analysis

South Africa is facing a cluster of crises.

There is a crisis of legitimacy around President Jacob Zuma. A crisis around the validity of the pre-1994 settlement which has not delivered on its initial promises. There is a generalised political crisis within the governing African National Congress (ANC) and tripartite alliance. There is a crisis in the labour movement and its institutions. There is a crisis of growing populism.

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