ANTHONY BUTLER: Slate politics still rules, throwing a lifeline to Ramaphosa’s reform projects
The conclusion that free-for-all alliances are leading the party towards continuing leadership incoherence and internal conflict has been disproved
17 October 2022 - 08:13
In recent weeks it has been difficult to summon up much enthusiasm for the ANC’s December elective conference, or for the jostling for leadership positions that has long been under way.
A consensus was emerging among leading political commentators that “slate politics” was dead, and that any reform project for Cyril Ramaphosa’s second term as ANC president would therefore be stillborn...
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