Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads.Why do people think it was a damp squib? I don’t think it was a damp squib. I think the extended ANC executive meeting in Pretoria which discussed (and ultimately rejected) a proposal to pull President Jacob Zuma out of office last weekend was huge. Confirmation that the party is in disarray is important because once it can’t be hidden, sober people will quickly appreciate that it cannot be fixed without new leadership. That is what leadership is there for. Poor ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe tried, not for the first time, to put the genie back in its bottle yesterday, saying that the Zuma debate was now over and that the party would concentrate on achieving unity. Yeah, right. Not only does Mantashe have no real authority anymore but he has spun himself dry. Unity is the one thing party leadership craves and in the case of the ANC under Jacob Zuma or anyone remotely close to him it is the one thing it cannot have. Zuma, seeing foreign a...
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