Has much changed since 1976?

Few have more succinctly summed up the general malaise of the South African political condition than Smuts Ngonyama has. In 2004, to national incredulity, the then ANC national spokesperson glibly confessed that he “did not join the struggle to be poor” – an utterance that saw him swiftly savaged. To his credit, though, Ngonyama was at least self-respecting enough to admit to what his ANC colleagues would rather pretend was not really the case; that theirs is a self-centred government.