Has democratic South Africa lost its way? | Inside Story

[@MBReader410]

The ANC was part of a liberation movement, not the liberation movement.

[@karenj8406]

This ANC's arrogance of not acknowledging massive corruption is why voters are voting for other parties. There are no consrquences (incl unemloyment, loadshedding and crime)

[@karinak9465]

ANC Guy a perfect example of how they disrespect us as civilians!! Also playing the blame game - taking no responsibility for messing up SA - our beautiful country

[@helenduplessis4166]

We are FINALLY becoming a democracy. The nature of a democracy is that no one party has a clear majority rule. One party state has massive issues. We have LOADS of corruption here. And the lack of service delivery is horrible. Cyril just talks and talks but nothing comes of what he says.

[@G-ManWaseKasiInManchester]

The ANC guy straight up lying on international TV🚮🤣Wild times

[@GlenroseMakgorogo]

He was one of the looters in Pretoria municipality. People are drinking urine and faeces in Hamaskraal, thanks to ANC thieves

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

All politicians in every nation lie whats new I hope people are well informed to discern for themselves

[@LowellBDennyIII]

"How many times has the liberation movement worked together with workers, and at the moment of victory betrayed the workers? There are many examples of that in the world. It is only if the workers strengthen their organization before and after liberation ... if you relax your vigilance, you will find that your sacrifices have been in vain. "You must support the African National Congress only so far as it delivers the goods. If the ANC government does not deliver the goods, you must do to it what you have done to the apartheid regime." Cde Nelson Mandela, addressing COSATU. September 1993

[@evandavies1230]

It lost its way decades ago.

[@GlenroseMakgorogo]

This Mkhubela guy is the thief that looted Pretoria municipality

[@rumanimolaudzi2184]

Why Anc telling us history

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

Because you don't know your history apartheid's legislative horrors still impact and reflect in the inequalities in South Africa be well informed before you talk

[@MrShanenanigans]

This ANC are a disgrace. They don’t know the meaning of the word accountability

[@NicoBotha-t2z]

The worst country in africa to live in due to anc

[@dallasjudah]

Try Europe, their mistake proof.

[@truthserum-za]

The ANC is going nowhere, analysts, reporters, research polls (asking a basket of selective people opposing the ANC), opposition parties learn the hard way the psychology of South Africans voting behaviour. Indeed the ANC lost its way, which political party doesnt? After the election the ANC will remain in power. Bookmark this comment and you will realise you get it so wrong all the time.

[@stephaniechamberlain1025]

This ANC is a joke, he doesn't admit there is any corruption, covid, Ukraine next will be palestine, what next? 😂😂

[@truecomment3650]

IGNORE THE APPEAL OF ANC THUGS AND VOTE FOR OTHER PARTIES

[@zakhelezwide1911]

The ANC guy is a lie like their father Ramadollar. Crime, Poverty, and the Economy have been worse under Ramaphosa.

[@G-ManWaseKasiInManchester]

Stop talking about Nelson Mandela, he’s the cause of the whole thing 😂

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

You have no shame to speak against the dead and Nelson Mandela will always be a hero and icon to all patriotic South Africans and peace loving nations in the world clearly your psychopathy speaks for itself

[@Gorilla8]

Nyaope e kotsi....e tlogele😢

[@G-ManWaseKasiInManchester]

Yeah I’m high on it here in the UK and I see how they actually perceive us in Africa. Y’all have no idea tbh we are shared like pieces of a pie. We’re funding the lifestyle of our peers here. And you guys wanna talk about nyoape, even nyaope is only supplied to SAns only🤣

[@colinthomas6888]

30 years ago. 😆 useless

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

Your comment is useless so is your logic

[@Bluecollarjoe6B9]

Yeah it’s basically on fire and everyone is ignoring the flames.

[@Alex-bd4ov]

ANC should be abolished. The ANC member even looks drunk 🍻

[@TheMightyKingzuru]

I don't think any sensible person would vote for ANC.

[@IOSALive]

Al Jazeera English, Your videos always make me happy, so I subscribed!

[@Jojohumf]

Yes I agree such well presented videos. The editing, passion and journalism is always out there. They pick very sharp presenters. They always give some history first before they get the subject. It’s little things like that, that I love.

[@KNathi1]

This is a Bot.

[@EmekaOkusor]

Miles ahead of West CNN n BBC

[@anitamondal7620]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@RianRian-em2ng]

30 year's a go and now 😥😥😥😥SA no Good

[@brianjunior7571]

The guy representing the ANC is disrespectful and full of ego. It shows panic in his party and they should lose.

[@mokotjolegodi9753]

No matter what you say especially from a world afar can never deter our determination of ensuring that the the ANC remain in power. Less than 48 hours left to victory. We are going to vote ANC🖤💚💛 and so far things are fmgoing well

[@MissSlenda]

Speak for yourself. Imagine as if we are all blind. There's most of us who can use our eyes. God Blessed us with not to see it like you. I bet you one of them that's benefitting somehow. Watch the space you will win the election with a coalition come back here on Friday

[@Daara92]

Vote eff julius malema

[@gerrald5272]

Cyril Marikana Ramaphosa must go!!!

[@darealmullins1310]

They like to play along way around a question, they never answer the question...never ever have they answered the question.they play dumb so well. He talked so much non sense I have no idea what he is saying.

[@icraftcrafts8685]

the problem is that there are political parties who are still clinging to apartheid and inequality and wealth for them.

[@MrShanenanigans]

Yes. The ANC

[@bonginkosinzimande1256]

We will be voting ANC. Don't be fooled by the internet

[@madumetjaapril6268]

We need to seal our borders ASAP

[@noneyourbiz]

Stop cutting in with "okay", it is rude.

[@lancencube5205]

I hate it severely bwhen anc wants to use Jacob Zuma as an scapegoat.its immoral and hypocritical

[@willieduffie4967]

Interesting 🤔

[@kimkaans1072]

EFF woza!!!!

[@mariomastadon7650]

After so many failures, it's so difficult to trust the future in the ANC's hands.

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

The ANC guest speaker was aggressively deflecting and was not a good representative while the other two guest speakers provided some insight into the mindset of voters and possible outcomes to the election however the interview was brief. I hope all South African voters are well informed on the pros and con's to coalition governance, possible change in party majority and the policies that will follow when voting but bare in mind South Africa is a developing global south nation our challenges are unique due to our history of Apartheid and our democracy is young when compared to other nations and their developed pace there is still a promise for a better future for our nation and its fight for human dignity for all regardless of status!

[@LonwaboNtobela-lw7cz]

EFF IS THE FUTURE SOUTH AFRICA

[@Alex-bd4ov]

Vote DA.

[@dahirdubow8636]

It seems this is the first time ANC party might not win 50%+1 and hence there could be power sharing between ANC AND EFF

[@lm_b5080]

that will be the death of the economy. in the 90s the currency was $1 = R2. Today it is nearly $1=R20. with the EFF it will go to R200!!

[@KNathi1]

​@@lm_b5080 Fear mongering.

[@shafiyaalgiquadra1105]

​@@lm_b5080but will the majority be better off than when 70% of economy is owned by 10% Dutch settler? I sure think so!😊

[@MotlokwaThwii]

​@@lm_b5080Don't you have anything of substance to offer besides scare tactics and fear mongering??

[@lm_b5080]

@@shafiyaalgiquadra1105 under Mbeki there was a growing black middle class which was exactly what the country needs. because of corruption + mismanagement, that middle class suffers & many in fact are leaving the country

[@jeromemosetic7250]

This bru cannot respond to the corruption question. Useless!

[@IbrahimaBasse-up9rg]

Julius malema will be président of south africa by God power

[@shafiyaalgiquadra1105]

Please vote EFF for the future of Africa.

[@marshalldamons2663]

Are you stupid....yes you are

[@luyandachamane2093]

Has democratic South Africa lost its way? Just last week the country won its fight for Human Rights on a global stage for the people of Palestine. Its Constitution is ahead of its time (compared to most Western countries). Its Democratic institutions have been tried and tested (to the point where a former president was arrested). Freedom of speech and the right to protest are fully respected. South Africa is not perfect. Economically we have challenges, but the question you should be asking as journalists is, why was the world so eager to invest in South Africa during Apartheid. We saw a peak in Foreign Direct Investment after the Sharpville Massacre and again after the Soweto uprising in 1976 (where the Apartheid government brutally murderd hundreds of school children). Then when democratic South Africa comes about in 1994 it's now no longer "investor friendly". So does the West only invest when people of colour are suffering? Given the current geo-poltical situation in Palestine it becomes easy for one to make assumptions , one can hope that's not the case. Yes our government is corrupt but heck the pentagon is yet to account for missing dollars. In South Africa freedom of press is there (its not perfect) but Julian Assange would not be in exile

[@lightningRatPack]

How is the constitution is ahead of its time when no way of protecting it? We have racist laws more then what there was during apartheid with more being added. People have been locked up for their speech if they are white, coloured or Indian only one race has freedom of speech. The world deinvested during apartheid. You need to learn your history. Many pulled up of south africa. Do you even know what the cold war is about the effect it had on south africa, no i didnt think so. The west invest invests much more now then it did in 1994 it just last year it spent R5bil just for HIV meds of south Africa's. The west and eurproue are by far the largest investors in south africa. you need to read more and top watching tv.

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

Thank you so much for your informed perspectives which I agree with many people commenting are providing biased one sentence opinions that are not constructive seeming to be a bunch of trolls singing the same tune.

[@DamienRL]

In our world we have 3 credit rating agencies that are taken seriously and when a country goes through a revolution that countries rating tanks its called investment security. Currently SA sits at a BB- which means we are junk status with two of those agencies so of course investors would not want to invest without the security that there investment would pan out.

[@papaqwesi9263]

EFF all the way ❤from Ghana 🇬🇭

[@bukelwamdleleni8247]

I changed my Vote to MK .MK Phambili

[@abdulmajaliwa6376]

Malema Viva

[@Jon962-h4i]

Melanoma?

[@lm_b5080]

that will be the death of the economy. in the 90s the currency was $1 = R2. Today it is nearly $1=R20. with the EFF it will go to R200!!

[@kimkaans1072]

Let's go!!! ♦️♦️♦️♦️ red all the way!!!!

[@tompanewalter]

We are voting for the ANC 🖤💚💛

[@comacuma2869]

That would be the healthy virgin south ,,,,,qatar is full height example of a corrupt man in eurasia span

[@noneyourbiz]

This host is rude. Well, he let you have it too.

[@angieleemans8316]

@ActionSA

[@Pholo54]

Apartheid was in power for 300 years with no electricity nor houses for 96% if it's citizens. Why not start there before the myopic view which equated 3 centuries to 3 decades. Poor journalism 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@studioorigami7463]

People can't keep voting the past which wad ANC wants south African to do every five years. Did apartheid destroy all state enterprises that were world class 30 years ago?

[@TheKoentje1994]

How could large scale colonisation by the Dutch East India Company not lead to racial inequality between white settlers and black people in South Africa? Apartheid is colonialism.

[@noneyourbiz]

EXACTLY. The journalist is intellectually lazy or else, she would have been nuamced in her accusations.

[@lukas3749]

Exactly! 300 years without electricity! And no houses... World is going the way it is because people believe such BS!

[@lm_b5080]

apartheid came into being in 1948. South Africa was only formed in 1910. study your history

[@refilwelekgothoane1267]

I’ll be voting for the ANC🖤💚💛

[@mokotjolegodi9753]

Yes my force tell them that our blood is Black, Green and Gold🖤💚💛

[@MusaTouray-yo6dr]

I LOVE malema

[@Jon962-h4i]

Of course you do. He’s promised you freebies. People said the same thing about Mugabe. Look how that turned out!

[@lightningRatPack]

I love him to, he shows how racist blcks are.

[@molkakaminski]

Black power😂

[@Masenwelo]

I am voting ANC....Iyabuya ⬛️🟩🟨

[@josephfrancois5225]

Africa…don’t be stupid….Malema is going to be the future of all Black people not only in Africa but,the entire world

[@ulricgordon8586]

Who chose these interviewees? The UDM is a Mickey Mouse party that is sympathetic to the ANC.

[@Dr_sm_shabangu_sm]

Certain colour, you can't say it clearly, (whites)

[@anitamondal7620]

Dont throw stones towards other houses while your house is made of glass😂😂😂 South Africa is doing the same thing by supporting Hamas while its domestic condition is far worse than Israel 🇮🇱 Gaza conflict 😂😂😂😂

[@SizweMhlongo-zm9sh]

Laught at your own propaganda logic every country regardless of its domestic struggles has to play a role in international relations which South Africa as a country that believes in and defends the right to human dignity is defending Palestinian rights not Hamas your lies are failing in the global perspective. South Africa will develop to a prosperous future because of our history and the Constitution which shows a resilient people that believes in human rights for all, our fight will continue.