LETTER: ANC must purge itself to survive
The vast majority of the ANC voting base no longer trusts the edicts from Luthuli House
Your editorial has horribly miscalculated the situation this country is inflicted with — how to punish the two fatally wounded elephants in the room, Jacob Zuma and Ace Magashule (“You have a country to govern, Mr President (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/editorials/2021-04-15-editorial-you-have-a-country-to-govern-mr-president/)”, April 15).
President Cyril Rhamphosa’s inactivity, as you put it, is not driven by any tactical calculus but rather his own uncertainty of what skeletons will come falling from his cupboards and when. We are seeing the classic scenario of those not yet implicated daring to cast a stone in their glass edifice. In political science we call that “paralysis of fear” as the legal apparatus turns against them...
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