How is this possible sixteen years after the overthrow of the Apartheid regime institutions?
The situation from the land point of view supplies the first answer: the Apartheid regime was first established on the basis of evicting blacks from their land. Today, sixteen years after the fall of Apartheid, more than 80% of cultivatable land still belongs to 62,000 white families. In other terms, the economic basis on which Apartheid was built has not been touched. That does not only concern land but also the main wealth of the country (its mineral wealth) which remains the private property of the big Apartheid families linked to multinational corporations. The compromise, which was negotiated between the Apartheid Government and the leadership of the national movement (the ANC), made explicit provision for protecting private property, i.e. for protecting foremost the big fortunes of Apartheid capitalism. How do the black people of South Africa react to this negation of what was at the heart of their combat against Apartheid? Today, through a series of movements and strikes in part
