By Oupa Ngwenya:
This is because blacks in SA politics do not matter. What residually matters still in SA politics is political parties that too have been guilt-tripped to neglect black people, as a measure of misguided and ill-informed ‘progressivism’ disbelieving that black people do not qualify to serve as the primary source, starting point and centre of concern of politics. Black people’s peripherisation is not by accident but by design.
As this black neglect grows, the illusion of splintered uselessed black power scavenges on the carcass of surviving but warring loyalties hoping to outwit each other for centredness in a ‘GNU’ setting that does not hide that all this black neglect is by expressed wish of ‘the markets’ that decreed their preferred coalition formula as the future direction of politics long before the May 29, 2024 elections whose predetermined coalition Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni had the audacity to berate black people as culpable for and the cherry on top being to call ‘GNU’ ‘the will of the people’.
Rather than err on the side of what still could pass as black parties, by definition of the unfinished business of the liberation project, the scarecrow used and to cement black neglect with a straight face was that to do so constitutes ‘doomsday coalition’.
Black solidarity equals doomsday
Allied billionaire wishes/donor-driven and white-centred/‘market/propelled’ politics bought and sold as a spectre of ‘moonrises and roses’ and ‘moonshots in cloud-free sprite blue skies’ with backing of uncritical co-optees in the commentariat spaces save for a few exceptions.
If politics were still alive and kicking as is journalism, would the baptism of “DA/ANC coalition [as a will of the people]” abracadabra have gone unchallenged?
Politics is dead, journalism is dead
What life is left still twitching for public discourse is the pied pipers of black neglect, so buoyed to believe that politics can continue without black people, whose remaining alienating instrumental purpose is to legitimise the system’s open neglect of black people through periodic elections that do not care a damn about black people.
Their lives have been so cheapened as not to even care about their children put into wholesale harm’s way by food poisoning dispensing from spaza shops, warehouses and retail shops meant and targeted at black people. Expired goods and produce have been linked to poisoning black children.
How a country sees non-nationals land on its border to kill its citizens because local traders probably do too, is a tacit admission that everyone has an equal opportunity to a licence to kill. The fault, dear South Africans, is not poisoning of your children but the lack of license that they are killed by non-nationals and nationals alike.
Come elections, the outdoor razzle-dazzle eventuates without fail to see the hearts and minds battle swing into top gear. Politically speaking, what are black people competing amongst themselves about really in this periodically sponsored party-political razzmatazz spoon-feeding as a necessary nutritional diet to sustain the health of what is called democracy? Is this possible to spell out?
The death of politics and journalism, by colluding mainstream media, has deadened common sense to cannot even ask what sense is left in SA politics to hear ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula call ‘GNU’ a ‘strategic defeat’ hot on the heels of having said the ‘ANC is not a black organisation’.
Strategic defeat: Who cares?
Defeat is unforeseen, unplanned for and undesired. Strategy is envisioned, planned, intended and deliberate. What does the phrase ‘strategic defeat’ mean in any sense for general understanding? No one cares.
Along with this, caring less, black people have been reduced to digits in the numbers game for power in party-political stakes that must be estranged from black people to act in the direction of their rehumanisation. Even sadder is that black people have also become socialised to believe they do not matter, as do their lives, as well as their children. – @NewsSA_Online
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