PARTY DIVIDED
NATASHA MARRIAN: Struggle of our time has begun
This ANC is still our ANC, axed finance minister Pravin Gordhan proclaimed on Saturday at a memorial service for Ahmed Kathrada at the Johannesburg City Hall, packed to the rafters with activists old and new. The consensus that held the broad church in the ANC together for decades no longer exists. There are two ANCs, if not three or four. It is divided and leaderless. Gordhan has become the latest rallying point for the disgruntled in the ANC, those who have fallen by the wayside in President Jacob Zuma’s decade-long emasculation of the 105-year-old liberation movement to a point where it is no longer recognisable even to those who helped build and shape it after 1994. The coming months will represent either the beginning of the long road to recovery or the final nail in the party’s coffin as it heads to its elective conference in December. If Zuma’s powerful faction solidifies its grip on the party, a further split is on the cards.It is a battle between the "progressive ANC" and t...
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