The 11th of October marked one hundred days since the formation of South Africa's Government of National Unit (GNU), a coalition made of the African National Congress (ANC) and several opposition parties, including the neo-liberal, right-leaning and majority-White Democratic Alliance (DA).
The coalition was formed after the ANC, which has ruled the country since the fall of apartheid in 1994, failed to garner an outright majority in the 29th May general elections. Many were surprised by the ANC's pick of coalition partners, especially the DA. The two parties have starkly different ideological positions.

The ANC has for decades postured as a leftist political organisation on a mission to dismantle the apartheid-era political, social and economic systems that have prevented Black South Africans from accessing economic opportunities. The DA, on the other hand, is widely seen as the home of White South Africans, the beneficiaries of the legacy of apartheid-era policies.

Not only do Western countries unendingly exploit Africa’s resources, but to keep African nations crippled, they also utilise multiple avenues that ensure the continent remains in a perpetual cycle of under-development.

These avenues, which range widely from currency control and unfavorable trade deals to private ownership of strategic assets and the extracting of resources without re-investments back into these nations, guarantee that Africans do not benefit from their minerals and lands.

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