At heart, the Phala Phala issue is a factional fight in the ANC. But as the party fixates on the issue, the country is facing collapse on numerous fronts, writes NatashaMarrian.
This past weekend, the ruling party fixated on the $580,000 private sale of a rare breed of buffalo rather than the billions in taxpayer money it has lost to corruption and state capture each year.
Far from solutions to the country’s very deep challenges — including energy, a looming water crisis, rampant crime, biting unemployment and poverty — the party’s national executive committee chose to satisfy factional impulses at its first in-person meeting after a two-year, Covid-induced hiatus...
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