LETTER: Black people bear the brunt in a capitalist society
Black majority are largely excluded from enjoying the socioeconomic benefits of the new dispensation
The rising cost of living is thrusting the poor into a poverty trap. Moreover, the public transport system is a shambles, with the dilapidated rail service in particular severely affecting the lives of the working class. What remains unchanged are ethically deficient politicians and unbridled corruption in the government.
The naked effect of this is the sharpest contradictions affecting black people in an unchanged capitalist society. It’s a matter of fact that white privilege insulates colonial relations in some centres of power from transformation by embracing bourgeois democracy and courting the black political elite to cultivate enduring influence...
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