POLITICS
AUBREY MATSHIQI: ANC factions regroup and re-arm under facade of unity
Talking about attempts to unite the opposition, former DA leader Tony Leon used to say that nothing divides opposition parties more than talks of unity. I suppose something similar can be said about the governing party, the ANC. It is now seven months since members of the ANC left unity in their chairs as they rushed to their cars and buses at the end of the Nasrec conference. Before they left, the delegates installed Cyril Ramaphosa as the president of the ANC but forgot to give him the party. Ramaphosa left with the ANC crown on his head but it felt as light as paper because a large territory of the ANC kingdom is still under the control of his opponents. Since then, his supporters and apologists have been hallucinating about unity and a new dawn. I was, therefore, not surprised when leaders of the ANC hailed the outcomes of provincial conferences in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng as evidence of deepening unity or factional divisions in decline.Because manners maketh a man, I am not go...
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