Whatever arrangement was brokered between the ‘Talibans’ and Zandile Gumede’s eThekwini region is unlikely to have been inspired by the ideals envisaged in the ‘Three Doctors’ Pact’.
While much of the hype during the weekend’s ANC KwaZulu-Natal elective conference was about the emergence and clean sweep of the so-called “Talibans” faction, the historic project to build a non-racial society was all but reduced to an irritating relic.
Historically, the former Natal Indian Congress was in the anti-apartheid struggle trenches with the ANC, to the extent that Nelson Mandela and leaders of his generation always drew inspiration from the famous “It was a joint declaration of cooperation signed in 1947 by Dr AB Xuma, president of the ANC; Dr GM Naicker, president of the NIC and Dr YM Dadoo, president of the Transvaal Indian Congress.
Properly, it was in line with the selfless contribution of leaders of different races — among them prominent Indian professionals too numerous to mention here — towards the new dispensation.But observing the weekend conference, older comrades could be forgiven for wondering: forget about the pseudo-Talibans; where have all the Indian comrades gone?
Incumbents in an election have the capacity to weigh up possible outcomes because they have a bird’s eye view of what is happening on the ground in the build-up to conferences. The reduced number of seats won in municipalities has meant that the ANC had limited scope to address racial balances on its proportional lists.The July unrest and the criminality that engulfed the predominantly Indian area of Phoenix, north of Durban, further polarised Indo-African relations within the ANC.
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