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CHRIS THURMAN: ANC Women’s League like Oscars — past redemption
This year’s awards ceremony confirmed the Oscars simply will not be dragged into the 21st century, writes Chris Thurman
Some things are irredeemable. They may once have been great, but now they are ready to be consigned to the ash heap of history — the ANC Women’s League, for instance, or the ANC Youth League. If there was conceivably something to be salvaged from these organisations until a few years ago — admittedly a desperate hope — it has disappeared, thanks to the crass ineptitude of President Jacob Zuma’s toadies, Bathabile Dlamini and Collen Maine. The jury is out on whether or not the ANC can be saved. It seems inevitable that, sooner or later, the party will split (if not, it will be consumed by the rapaciousness of a predatory political culture). I have learned to appreciate the patience and valour of those who try to fight the rot from inside — not just the Pravin Gordhans, but the quiet heroes we don’t read about: the leakers and whistleblowers, the bureaucrats and policy drafters. Still, I don’t think the ANC can be redeemed. There are also entities that never have been great and never ...
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