Labels such as 'sellout' resurface as ANC considers coalition with DA, challenging its revolutionary image.
Labels such as 'sellout' resurface as ANC considers coalition with DA, challenging its revolutionary image.
One of the biggest pastimes of all left-leaning organisations of the struggle era was finding labels for all they deemed counter-revolutionary: sellout is one such label that got thrown around quite easily. The biggest is that it does not have the luxury of dismissing everyone who is not ideologically aligned with their policies.The unions, the EFF and MK party played a big role in ensuring that the ANC lost its majority at the polls.
The ANC got the mandate to govern following that negotiated settlement. There was no winner or loser as there would be in a war situation.
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