ABSTRACT
The new South African government claims that it has earnestly embarked on a path of economic and social transformation through emphasis on growth of the country's capitalist economy, specifically through the Growth, Employment, and Redistribution (GEAR) program, which was preceded by the Reconstruction and Development Program. South Africa is now the latest addition to the states of Africa that appears to be headed in the direction of neocolonial political economies. The continuance of a capitalist system in post-apartheid South Africa, minus its overt racist ideological trappings, is the Western powers' fervent desire. The Black working-class community is the sector that creates South Africa's wealth, finances its industrialization, and maintains the nation's existence and well-being. In June 1994, several hundred homeless Black people who attempted to occupy their lands, stolen from them by white "developers", were forced off by police authorities.
