Before 2016, it felt as if SA was a deer in the headlights — there was a numbing complacency. Now the prevailing political mood is one of defiance.
Defiance in the face of paralysis in the ANC to act against a rogue president. Defiance by the ANC’s parliamentary caucus against the expectation that it cast a blind eye on the excesses of this administration.
Defiance by ANC structures against a narrative developed by a UK-based public relations firm at the behest of an Indian family whose citizenship is at best dubious.