"I can’t help but wonder as to why we are still so far from any real solutions to any of our real problems. Why can’t we, as a country, agree on the next step? Is the structure of our nation, our inequality, racialised as it is, our classes and languages, are they really just too much for us to surmount? "

Stephen, you are conflating country and ANC.  The ANC is so divided, captured and inept that it is unable to find solutions.  BUT the people and the country and the other political parties are not, and they will find the solutions including voting out the ANC.