GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Today we are all Team ANC
Save SA is a faction of the ANC, established and run by insiders but alienated from it, to ensure the South African paradigm remains under the ruling party
Moments of moral panic are revealing. In the wake of SA’s latest such spasm, many impulses normally hidden by convention rise to the surface. Of them all, one stands out as particularly significant: The almost universal call to arms, among the public and the media, to rally behind the ANC. Today, we are all part of Team ANC, we are told, and must do what we can to help recuse the organisation from its own nightmare. The question no one seems willing to answer, if why? That is a counterintuitive point. After all, aren’t we actually mobilising against the ANC and its president? Not at all. The invention of Save SA, a brilliant little bit of marketing genius, has seen to that.Essentially Save SA is a faction of the ANC, established and run by those inside the ANC but alienated from it, to ensure the South African paradigm remains quintessentially ANC in nature. It has swept up the South African media and public alike and must be quietly laughing somewhere, as all and sundry dance to it...
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