10.19------POLITICS LIVE: Why Jacob Zuma is taking the ANC to its graveThe year 2019 must seem terrifically close to the ANC's strategists. Wait? Did I say 'ANC's strategists'? My mistake, there's no evidence that the ANC has strategists these days.What it has instead are contending factions and individuals that assert contradictary agendas, building a picture of a giant supertanker, rudderless and adrift on an ocean.The problem for the ANC is that this inward-looking internecine battle severely limits the party's ability to look outwards where danger and opportunity lie unseen.They are so busy fighting over the wheel that no one has seen the iceberg that is the 2019 election.The chauvinistic dominance of one faction over another is very unlikely to produce a rational strategic approach. The outlines of such a rational strategic approach are fairly obvious.The party is losing ground on three fronts: The demobilisation of its supporters who no longer turn up to vote in the numbers th...
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