AUBREY MATSHIQI: Battle for soul of party plays a part in SA’s decline
THE ANC was formed 104 years ago. The fact that its leaders have succeeded in destroying what was once a glorious movement for the liberation of the oppressed in just 12 years proves right the adage that it is easier to destroy than to build.The problems that have beset the ANC during this period are part of a continuum of internal tensions that started peaking in the months leading up to the axing of Jacob Zuma as deputy president of the country in June 2005. Coinciding with these tensions are external forces that have captured different parts of the ANC, some of its leaders, as well as some sections of the state. The external forces and the internecine battles of the past 12 years have conspired to produce a moment in our politics that has caused our society, economy, institutions and discourse to be contaminated by the decline it has imposed on our country.It is a moment in the politics of the ANC which, just before its onset, produced two cults that are erroneously referred to a...
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