Earlier this week ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula blithely reassured a BBC interviewer that “if certain things are not resolved we will become a failed state, but we are not journeying towards that direction”.

Unfortunately, Mbalula did not reveal what those “certain things” are, or how exactly they will be tackled. ..

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