South Africa is entering one of its most defining transitions since 1994. For three decades, our democracy has known a familiar pattern: the ANC leading the government while the SACP and Cosatu provide ideological and worker-based anchors within the tripartite alliance. That arrangement shaped not only the liberation movement but the character of the post-apartheid state.
Now, for the first time in our democratic history, that long-standing alliance is fracturing. The SACP’s recent decision to walk away from its decades-long partnership with the ANC marks a turning point with implications far deeper than coalition arithmetic. It forces us to ask difficult but necessary questions: What becomes of SA’s transformation project?
What becomes of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR)? And how should the church interpret its moral and spiritual role in a world increasingly defined by instability? These questions matter because SA is not only navigating domestic uncertainty — we are doing so in a global context where geopolitical tremors shake even the strongest nations.
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The Russia–Ukraine war drags on with no resolution in sight. Nato warns of potential escalation. Western economies, long dominant in SA’s trajectory, face leadership fragmentation and internal fatigue.
US president Donald Trump’s declaration that Europe is “weak” reflects a world unsure of its once-stable centres of power. Mzantsi, a country of paradoxes, now feels the weight of these shifting global winds. The National Democratic Revolution Without the SACP
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