No-one expects the ANC, or any regular political party, to be without internal contestation. Contestation is the lifeblood of political parties.

Only in the EFF, where Julius Malema holds total sway, or in the IFP of the 1980s and 1990s, does one person reign supreme. Those, however, are organisations that are closer to cults than they are to political entities.        ..

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