One can delude oneself as much as one wishes, but a 'Ramaphosa' vote is equally a 'Zuma' vote.
One can delude oneself as much as one wishes, but a ‘Ramaphosa’ vote is equally a ‘Zuma’ vote.
The Sandton launch for Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s expose of ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule’s dirty dealings during his tenure as Free State premier had to be abandoned in the face of book-ripping, customer-jostling crowd of threatening ANC Youth League supporters. The police stood by, either inept or complicit.This is a political environment where xenophobic attacks go unpunished, where a veiled call for genocide gets the blessing of the Human Rights Commission.
It is admittedly admirable that the old-guard ANC stalwarts have expressed their disapproval over the ANCYL’s undemocratic behaviour. As a result, in response to instructions from above, the Free State book burning has been cancelled or at least – much like Julius’s threatened genocide – postponed, for now. Whether the threats to tear Myburgh from limb to limb if he dares set foot in the Free State are similarly rescinded has not been specified.
It makes it possible for two ideologically incompatible but evenly matched parties, who are engaged in a perpetual struggle for mastery of the organisation, to co-exist under a single roof. It will continue until eventually one bests the other, or the electorate tires of the arm-wrestling, at which point the ANC may split.
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