BNIC#2 Frans Cronje Q&A: ANC "immunised against reform" while Cape builds future as global winner

At BNIC#2 in Hermanus, political scientist Frans Cronje warned that the ANC’s collapse is both inevitable and avoidable—simple reforms could revive growth and even secure the party’s future, yet internal paralysis and structural resistance to change make this unlikely. He described Ramaphosa as a consensus-seeker unsuited to crisis leadership, predicting that rather than saving the ANC, he will preside over its demise. Cronje argued that South Africa faces a fork in the road: either a functional unitary state with easy fixes, or Balkanisation. He also pointed to the Western Cape as a long-term winner regardless of national outcomes.

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