Why ANC’s failures make South Africa uninvestable—and where smart money goes instead.
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ANC misrule blamed for economic collapse and corruption
Loadshedding, unemployment, and debt crisis deepen poverty
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By Rob Hersov*
Dear fellow South Africans, and anyone still foolish enough to believe in the ANC’s promises,
I stand before you today not as a pessimist, but as a realist. Not as someone who hates this country, but as someone who loves it too much to watch it burn in silence.
And burn it is, under thirty years of ANC misrule that has transformed what was once Africa’s economic powerhouse into a cautionary tale of how quickly a nation can destroy itself.
The title of my speech today is not hyperbole.
It is not political rhetoric.
It is a cold, hard fact backed by three decades of devastating evidence: South Africa is uninvestable under the ANC.
And if you’re still putting your money into this economy under their leadership, you’re not investing – you’re gambling with your family’s future.
Let me be crystal clear from the outset.
This is not about race.
This is not about the past.
This is about competence, accountability, and results.
And on every single metric that matters – economic growth, job creation, infrastructure, safety, governance – the ANC has failed spectacularly.
The ANC have taken a country that was handed to them as a functioning, First World economy and systematically destroyed it through corruption, incompetence, and ideological blindness.
The numbers don’t lie, even when politicians do.
Since 2008, South Africa’s GDP has grown by an average of just 1.3 percent per year.
That’s slower than our population growth of 1.4 percent.
Think about what that means: we are literally getting poorer every single year.
Our economy is shrinking per capita while the ANC leadership gets richer and the rest of us get poorer.
In 2024, our GDP growth was a pathetic 0.58 percent. Some quarters showed contraction. This is not a developing economy – this is a dying economy. And the patient is on life support while the doctors are looting the medicine cabinet.
