FORMER head of state and deputy president of SA and the ANC, Kgalema Motlanthe, once said that to fix the country, the ANC must be fixed. I have always felt that this amounts to putting the caravan in front of the car.In my view, what is paramount is what we need to do to fix our country. For me, fixing it must be the imperative, and for this to happen, we may need to fix or discard the ANC. The position history will accord to the ANC in this regard is contingent much more on what the party decides to do than on the objective factors it tends to implicate for its subjective weaknesses and failures, on the one hand, and the gap between its policies, particularly its economic policies, and the lived reality of our people on the other.It is possible the ANC succeeds in fixing, renewing and regenerating itself so that it may contribute towards building an SA that is qualitatively better than the antithesis of apartheid society.In other words, if it fails, it will fail too with regard to...
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