When a ruling party in any African country sinks to the depths of allowing its police force to serve white-dominated multinational capital by killing dozens of black workers so as to end a brief strike, as happened in South Africa in August, it represents not just human-rights and labour-relations travesties. The incident offers the potential for a deep political rethink. But that can only happen if the society openly confronts the chilling lessons learned in the process about the moral degeneration of a liberation movement that the world had supported for decades. Support was near universal from progressives of all political hues, because that movement, the African National Congress (ANC), promised to rid this land not only of formal apartheid but of all unfair racial inequality and indeed class and gender exploitation as well. And now the ANC seems to be making many things worse Izikole zidonsa kanzima kumanje, hhayi ngoba singabazali singenayo imali kodwa yingoba singafuni ukukhokha. Abazali uma sekukhulunywa eyokukhokha bamane bashalaze sengathi intombi ifuna ukuqoma, ushalaza nje wenze ikhanda ngenkulu imali le.