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The ANC is wrong on Venezuela
This rhetoric doesn’t serve the interests of South Africa’s people, or the people of Venezuela.
3 February 2026
This rhetoric doesn’t serve the interests of South Africa’s people, or the people of Venezuela.
The Brussels effect disadvantages the developing world anew, ignoring desperate struggles with poverty, government corruption, and weaker economies.
By promoting the idea that the state should seize resources from individuals without consent, their proposals lay the ideological groundwork for converting plunder into a legitimate tool for achieving social equity.
All of history’s lessons mandate that it should always be very difficult for the state to divest owners of their property.