CAROL PATON: ANC clique has rest of comrades in stranglehold
THE ANC is unravelling at an alarming pace. Because the organisation is so big and dominant in our politics, and because it is the governing party, it feels as if the entire country has been thrown into chaos. It hasn’t. But these are the mad last days of a once great organisation spinning out of control, and it is not an easy thing to live with. The biggest consequence of this dysfunctionality at a political level is confidence. The lies, the mishaps and the contradictions have onlookers — citizens and investors — agog. At government level, the consequences are tangible and practical: policies can’t get through Cabinet; policy-making and decision-making are deferred or abandoned. Growth cannot get going. How long will this chaotic death spiral go on? That is not a question anyone can confidently answer. If things continue at this pace, along this course, by 2019 it could all be over for the ANC. It could be pushed out of power. This course is one in which the part of the ANC that i...
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