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Post-apartheid, a new way was possible, Mandela poised to lead it by rejecting market orthodoxy for economic justice. In 1994, ANC candidates won overwhelmingly. Nonetheless, despite transitioning peacefully, betrayal, not progressive change followed. Black South Africans became predatory capitalist hostages. They still are, worse off now than under apartheid.
Even The New York Times noticed, writer Celia Dugger headlining on September 26, 2010: "Wage Laws Squeeze South Africa's Poor," saying:
"In the 16 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa has followed the prescriptions of the West, opening its market-based economy to trade, while keeping inflation and public debt in check (by following IMF diktats). It has won praise for its efforts," but at a price. "For over a decade, the jobless rate been among the highest in the world," exacerbated by the global economic crisis, "wiping out more than a million jobs."
Overall, the toll included:
-- double the number of people impoverished on less than $1 a day from two to four million;
-- unemployment doubling to 48% from 1991 - 2002, currently even higher;
-- two million South Africans losing their homes while the government built only 1.8 million others;
-- in the first decade of ANC rule, nearly one million South Africans lost farms; as a result, shack dwellers grew by 50%;
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