South African politics is in the throes of an Oedipal time. So many, it seems, want to kill the fathers of South African democracy. People who concur on nothing else agree that the settlement of 1994 was poisoned to the core, that everything the generation that brought freedom has touched is sullied, that SA must cleanse itself of all that they did. Among those wielding the knife is the Premier League. The ANC provincial barons understand the 1994 settlement as a backroom deal between English-speaking capital and the descendants of the posh, missionary-educated blacks who once ran the ANC. For them, the state founded in 1994 should be raided and looted and its Constitution violated, for it is a constitution written to protect the posh from those left out in the cold. But the prime exemplars of Oedipal politics are those who in the past few months have got hold of the university student movement and led it on its current path. Their war against the generation that brought freedom is ...
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