THE THICK END OF THE WEDGE
ANC’s special weekend served the truth
The NEC meeting revealed opposing groups in the ANC really hate each other and neither side of the divide will walk away, writes Peter Bruce
Don’t despair. Jacob Zuma’s "victory" at the extended ANC national executive committee (NEC) meeting last weekend was only partly that. A motion to recall him, or for him to resign as head of state, was lost and, in fact, not even voted on. But so much more was gained than lost. Yes, getting rid of Zuma would lift the entire country, at all sorts of levels and for all the right reasons. But when the population voted him back into office for the second time in 2014, we pretty well had to resign ourselves to five more years of visionless, self-serving and fraudulent rule from this man. We’ll probably get it. It already feels like it. But what we get in return are a string of certainties any cricket captain would take in advance in return for losing the toss. We know now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the ANC is deeply, but deeply, divided. As the NEC meeting showed and as secretary-general Gwede Mantashe later admitted, these people on either side of the divide really hate one anot...
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