THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Is Malema’s ANC merger a pipe dream or pot stirrer?
I AM still trying to digest the meaning and implications of what Julius Malema may have unleashed in an interview on eNCA this week, when he said, should the ANC vote fall below 50% in the 2019 general election, then "the first offer I’m going to give the ANC is [a] merger…."He knitted the fingers of both hands together as he continued. "The EFF and the ANC must come together and then we’ll collapse the name ANC and close Luthuli House and go and open up headquarters of this new party in Soweto, where our people are."That’s quite a statement from someone who has changed the face of South African politics by demonising the ANC under Jacob Zuma, and Malema is no media rookie. He must have known that what he said would be repeated and analysed.My only conclusion is that he is trying to directly influence what ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said this very week is a "stampede" inside the party for positions as Zuma and his team head into their final year running the party.Asked who...
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