OP-ED: Restoring ethics, trust and compassion into South African politics By Raymond Suttner RaymondSuttner
Many feel “depressed” or “disillusioned” and do not know what to do with their vote and do not see a way out of the current dissolute politics.
It may well be that the ANC will continue to exist, but it seems unlikely that it can be the bearer of these responsibilities or “return to its true self” and be seen as the custodian of a liberatory vision. This remark raised the question of whether there is in fact a relatively pure, unblemished ANC to which to return, and whether those who are united in the veterans and elders’ groups are in agreement on what that means. I understand, better now than I did in 2009 and much better than I did when I first got involved in the struggle in the late 1960s, that some of the rot in the ANC did not start with Zuma and that there was abuse in earlier periods.
Just as there is no denying that there is rot in the ANC there is also no denying that many, many people joined the organisation for motives that were pure, and saw the ANC as embodying a spirit of concern for all human beings and that many of its members were willing to sacrifice all in order to achieve freedom.
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