Oh what a grand thing is democracy. It is a great giver and it takes too. I would have loved to have been in the same room with DA leader Mmusi Maimane and the EFF's Julius Malema at 2pm last Tuesday. That was the time ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe sat in front of the microphones at Luthuli House to announce the outcome of the party's marathon national executive committee meeting. Of course Malema would have known exactly what had gone down in that meeting. President Jacob Zuma's divided NEC is leaking like a sieve and Malema is the first man to know what is going on inside the ANC. He knows because at least a quarter of that NEC bleats, directly or indirectly, to him. They know now that this young man who once vowed to kill for the president of the ANC saw the light way earlier than them and opposed Zuma way back in 2012. And they didn't listen. Mantashe's press conference has set the ANC and South Africa on one path: the party is on its last mile, headed for total destructi...
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