Frustratingly, the ANC has an ideological commitment to a large state. It sees this as the pathway to development. The developmental state, with something like South Korea in mind. And this would allow ‘the people’ to take control of their destiny. In an article published in 1997 in The African Communist, it was argued: ‘This is one of the central reasons why the democratic movement must resist the liberal concept of “less government”, which, while being presented as a philosophical approach towards the state in general, is in fact aimed specifically at the weakening of the democratic state.
