Popcru President Thulani Ngwenya. Picture: Timothy Bernard / Independent Newspapers
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) president Thulani Ngwenya said the country is likely to face a disastrous future marked by political instability if the DA is part of the Government of National Unity (GNU).
Ngwenya, who addressed the Central Executive Committee session in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni on Monday, said this will be to push a political agenda.
“The complex nature of this GNU will make it difficult to build a black agenda in South Africa. The government is likely to be reformist and consolidate the relations of settler-colonialism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism,” he said.
According to Ngwenya, this was because “the practice of democracy under the arrangement of neoliberal capitalism had hidden the political and cultural sources of structural inequality that defined colonialism and apartheid, which persisted in post-apartheid South Africa.”
He stated that the problems of inequality are going to continue as usual, even though the ANC has lost its majority.
The ANC for the first in 30 years, lost the majority in the recent May 29 national and provincial elections, which forced the ANC to settle for the GNU.
Ngwenya said the GNU would be a disaster for black people.
Supporting his sentiment, SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila the GNU with DA included was not for black people and their agenda did not include the black committee.
Ngwenya further stressed that the cost of living was a crisis for many people.
Unemployment, particularly among the youth, is at staggering levels, hovering around 33%, with youth unemployment even higher.
“This reality has forced countless people to confront the harshness of poverty and has exacerbated inequality.
“The dream of economic emancipation that we fought so hard for feels further away than ever for millions,” he said.
He also warned the ANC that the GNU would threaten the workers' rights.
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