PARTY CAPTURE
PALESA MORUDU: ANC democrats face choice of allegiance
South Africans have taken to the streets, putting ANZ on notice. How did it get here?
It took a decade to entrench the coup in the ANC. While notable opposition has finally roused itself in the party, it is too little, too late. This captured organisation is now the African National Zuma (ANZ). The president’s goons dominate the party’s leadership structures, not to mention the police and spy apparatus. The governing party is headed for a new split. South Africans have taken to the streets, putting ANZ on notice. How did it get here? In 2007, after I was elected secretary of an ANC branch in Cape Town and a colleague was elected deputy secretary, a branch meeting descended into chaos. A gun was pointed at the colleague, chairs were thrown and there was mayhem. I had to ask a provincial ANC official, who had brought bodyguards, to help me leave the building. What sparked this violence? Supporters of Jacob Zuma had just lost an election. Similar scenes were repeated in many ANC branches. Internal democracy and contestation of ideas were not part of their DNA.Shortly be...
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