A great test awaits the ANC in December when, or if, the Radical Economic Transformation faction and the hollow men and women in the liberation movement who have not (yet) shown their colours, align more overtly with the EFF and get rid of Cyril ...
It has been almost three years since I wrote that our focus on the way that the EFF was slouching towards fascism was taking our attention away from the ANC, andAs the ANC faces the possibility of decline, demise or disintegration, it is becoming clearer that its leaders are quaking in their Salvatore Ferragamos and Manolo Blahniks – and becoming increasingly authoritarian.
It suggests, also, that Cele has simply run out of ideas, much like the rest of the ANC who ran out of ideas after the first 15 years or so, and are now circling the wagons as they approach the point of mass accountability for the misdeeds of the 2007 Polokwane Class Project that gave rise to the Jacob Zuma presidency.and confrontational views on the common good in South African politics and government.
We seem to be approaching a period where it’s the ANC’s way or the highway. Most recently we have seen the ANC’s approach to Russia’s war against the Ukrainian people prevail –All of these, and more, point to a de-democratising of South Africa’s political economy. In an homogenised society it would be easy to say that the ANC has preferenced atomisation over the collective common good.
It would be easy to refer to this as the escape clause of idiots , but it’s more of an authoritarianism by stealth. While I have noticed this stealth authoritarianism and drift towards fascism in the EFF, the rise of the Radical Economic Transformation faction and hollow women and men in the ANC are working desperately to perpetuate power through “legal mechanisms” of democracy.
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