The ANC in the WC needs a leader who understands how Apartheid had planted seeds of distrust among South Africa’s different racial groups
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki addresses the audience at Constitution Hill on 19 November 2017 in Johannesburg. Picture: Gallo Images / Sowetan / Thulani Mbele
For a province that gave the country exemplary leaders such as Reverend Allan Boesak, Dullah Omar, Zola Skweyiya, Geraldine Frazer-Moleketi, Trevor Manuel and Ebrahim Rasool etc shouldn’t it at least have a say on who becomes ANC President or who gets to form the top six? The simple answer is, the party failed or refused to understand what is referred to in political talk as the ‘Coloured Issue’.
So-called Coloureds are most unlikely to trust anybody one shade darker than them with power over their affairs. When the province went to its elective provincial conference in 2005 he, as it had become his leadership style, preferredThis was regardless of James Ngculu, Skwatsha and other members of the so-called ‘Africanist’ camp launching a campaign to unseat him.
Maybe the wool that was pulled over the ANC’s eyes was Max Ozinsky, a white Capetonian patronising the Africanist camp. Others associated with the camp were Garth Strachan, Lynne Brown and Yusuf Gabru.
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