In the aftermath of the election, clichés have mushroomed across the political landscape —  “the art of the possible”, “a week is a long time in politics”, “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”, and on and on ad nauseam.

Floyd Shivambu — co-founder and former deputy president of the EFF — has defected to Jacob Zuma’s MK Party, of which Zuma is leader, while, in his own eyes at least, remaining a member of the ANC. And no-one in his new party dare gainsay him, about that or anything else. ..

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