       the Commission for Gender Equality; the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities; the Independent Electoral Commission; the Public Protector; the South African Human Rights Commission; an independent authority to regulate broadcasting (this role is being fulfilled by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa); the Pan-South African Language Board. The principle of safeguarding the rights of minorities by the establishment of such institutions via the Constitution, seems to be an ideal solution. However, in practice, this has not proven to be the case in the past 18 years. The results of a survey undertaken in South Africa’s Gauteng province by a partnership comprising the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, the Gauteng government and the South African Local Government Association revealed in August 2014 that levels of racial and xenophobic intolerance are increasing. Other studies point to a similar increase in gender-based violence. AfriForum believes that the lack of success achieved by these bodies can be ascribed to the interference of the South African ruling party, the ANC. The principal action plan of the ANC is the National Democratic Revolution (NDR). Philosophically, the NDR is anchored in Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Existentialism and varieties of Africanism. It emphasises radical social, political and economic transformation. A requirement of the plan is the consolidation of power bases in all fields of society, politics and the economy. The political party has to coordinate and manage such power bases with the revolutionary ideal as objective. Strategies deployed to achieve this goal, include the use of legislation and cadre deployment. Such cadres take over and consolidate power bases in strategic positions, as political control must precede economic control and social reconstruction on way to the achievement of the NDR’s revolutionary ideals. If the abovementioned bodies were to function as intended, they would be a formidable impediment to the implementation of the NDR or any similar programme promoting the interests of a specific group at the cost of the rest of the country’s residents, especially members of minorities. Therefore these institutions are in practice increasingly being paralysed, due to cadre deployment within, but also the provision of insufficient funding which makes it impossible for them to operate optimally, by not providing them with any binding powers to make their rulings enforceable and by casting suspicion on the competence and