EDITORIAL: For all the ANC's pious protestations, there hasn’t been much to show for that change — especially when Ace Magashule sits comfortably in the secretary general’s office.
Outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg last Sunday, the crowds of ANC supporters were buoyant. They wore their hope on the front of their T-shirts. Considering the party’s past 10 years of governance, the smiling face of President Cyril Ramaphosa may well be the ANC’s last hope.In the chorus of song and dance, there was also a palpable sense of resurgence.
But when ANC supporters filled up Ellis Park on Sunday — with an additional 38 000 people being sent to Johannesburg Stadium next door — the mood of the rally, to borrow from party spokesperson Pule Mabe, was the mood of an ANC rally as we know it.The most hardline ANC loyalists have been at pains to reassure anyone who would listen that the tone of national executive committee meetings has changed under Ramaphosa. The ANC, as everyone else knew it, is back.
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