The deployment of embattled former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede as an ANC member of the provincial legislature in KwaZulu-Natal is a slap in the face of the people of the province. It shows that Luthuli House is in tatters; the centre is not holding.

She and others of her ilk have one thing in common: they belong to the “radical economic transformation” faction of the ANC, led by Ace Magashule. ..

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