NIC BORAIN and LAURENT BALT: A cornered RET
Only people or groups threatened with the same fate as Ace Magashule and those who fear they may face something similar in the future have much incentive to align themselves with the ANC secretary-general
12 April 2021 - 08:30
So where to now for Ace Magashule and the forces of radical economic transformation (RET)?
Unpacking the health of an ANC faction nowadays is a tricky business. For a start, these are generally not factions in the traditional political meaning, but rather loose coalitions defined by common and shifting interests, seldom with particular ideological cohesion. If anything, ideology is used mostly to pressurise opposing factions...
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