‘Interventions to improve lives will not work if blacks are excluded’

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) leader Vuyo Zungula says government’s interventions to improve the lives of South Africans will not work as long as the majority of blacks are excluded from the economy.

In his address during the opening of Parliament, President Cyril Ramaphosa spelled out the government of national unity’s plans for inclusive growth and job creation over the next five years.

Zungula participated in a joint debate on Ramaphosa’s address.

“A crisis that is leading the country to be a failed state. At the core of the crisis is how the democratic project of 1994 did not address the systematic racial and economic structure of the country. The economy and wealth of the country is still in the hands of few White families, while the majority of black South Africans do not know where their next meal is coming from.

Government can have many interventions, but if they don’t address the structural design on the economy, none of the interventions are going to work. We are clear as the ATM that the unemployment, the poverty and inequality keep on increasing because we have got an economic system that is only benefiting a selected few.”

Debate on Opening of Parliament Address: