EDITORIAL: Imagine a new political home
The difficulty will be to get career politicians to leave their ambitions at the door
Former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza, who left the party last month expressing horror at its moral decline, has begun to talk about the need for a new political party. This has been reported widely as a move by Khoza to start "her own" political party. If that is the intention then it is a project that will surely fail. SA has welcomed a string of new parties since 1994, most of which are still only just breathing. Worst performer of all has been the party closest to where Khoza’s ideas seem to lie: that of Mamphela Ramphele’s Agang. But if the intention is, as she has put it, to help build "a new political home" for South Africans, it is an endeavour very much worth thinking about. The two biggest political parties, the ANC and the DA, are close to their sell-by dates. In the case of the ANC, the party of liberation brought many benefits, both material and political, to the black majority. But, 20 or so years after the advent of democracy, it has rendered itself unable to complete its histo...
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