Standing out in a crowd
JUSTICE MALALA: Everyone’s running, so why shouldn’t I?
Like Mbete, I have nothing to offer. But unlike Cyril I am declaring here and now that I am ready to run. ANC members, take me, I am yours
Like Mbete, I have nothing to offer. But unlike Cyril I am declaring here and now that I am ready to run. ANC members, take me, I am yours.Everyone seems to be running for the ANC presidency these days. Cyril Ramaphosa was in KwaZulu Natal where Shembe Church leaders told him to stop being shy and state clearly that he wants to be president. Mathews Phosa says he is running. Zweli Mkhize, who never gave interviews, is suddenly popping up here, there and everywhere. Even the hopeless think they will make it. I mean, after her abysmal performance as speaker of the National Assembly, does anyone really think that Baleka Mbete can run a bath? One of her team members told me that her chances of winning are 60%. My word. Human settlements minister Lindiwe Sisulu, the real and unheralded architect of Zuma’s rise to power in the 2000s, is now also giving lectures, telling us the ANC has hit rock bottom. Shem, as they say in Hammanskraal.So with such a wide field I think I, too, have a chanc...
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