YACOOB ABBA OMAR: The ANC lives and leads — assertion or ambition?
Germany’s SDP shows the value of analysing failings in a broad rank-and-file exercise
“The ANC lives. The ANC leads.” With these words ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa concluded his party’s 2022 policy conference. Given the speculation swirling around the governing party about it being on a downward spiral to oblivion, the reiteration of those two slogans could be seen as both an assertion and an aspiration.
At the core of this vision, Ramaphosa asserted, was the process of renewal. This is a process I am particularly concerned with as a member of the ANC’s renewal commission, and which I spent much time understanding on a June visit to Berlin, made possible by Germany's Frederick Ebert Stiftung...
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