As Dr Klassen points out, when rural people voted, overwhelmingly for ANC in 1994, they voted for equality and democratic rights within a reunited South Africa. They would never have imagined that the ANC would abuse their support to entrench structural inequality in post- apartheid South Africa to advance the interest of an elite and to facilitate the exploitation of our mineral resources to the detriment of our rural and tribal folk and the gross and enrichment of a few.