Yo, Peter, small correction, the government is not entirely "black-led"...

The ANC lost it's outright majority in 2024 (first time this has happened since 1994) and it is now in a coalition government with the DA, which has been it's primary opposition for more than two decades.

The DA voter base, is about 30% white, 30% coloured (mixed race) and 30% black. It's leader (John Steenhuisen) is white, and it's previous leader, Mmusi Maimane, was black. The DA holds a number of significant positions in the coalition government, for the first time ever.

The ANC still behaves as if it has that outright 60%+ majority it enjoyed in the late 1990's and early 2000's, which allowed it to do whatever it wanted, and the president signing the expropriation act without consulting it's coalition partners is evidence of that, but the reality is that they no longer have that majority, they barely crossed 40% in 2024, and they're likely never getting it back.

Furthermore, somewhat miraculously, only a relatively small part of the population have thus far voted for radical extreme left/communist populism, the type of which would see apartheid being reversed. The EFF have contested 3 elections and never won more than ~10% of the vote, with the numbers slightly declining in 2024.

From the outside, yes, judging by the behaviour of political leaders, we're probably screwed. But, digging deeper, the government is no longer single minded in its approach, as was the case up until 2024.