PICTURE: THEMBINKOSI DWAYISA Funny, in a manner of speaking, how little is learnt from history. Paradoxically, given their long struggle of one against the other, the present ANC is exhibiting some discomfiting similarities with the previous National Party government.Late in the day for the former, and too late for the latter, they awoke to the realisation of SA’s reliance on foreign capital. As disinvestment accelerated and the economy stagnated, political fissures grew. The effect on the once-immutable National Party was disastrous, as the ANC might do well to recall.It was 31 years ago that then President PW Botha delivered his so-called Rubicon address, which failed to deliver the reform promises that the world had been led to expect. Similarly today, President Jacob Zuma faces a Rubicon which he addresses by contradictions.Nobody knows what to expect. Zuma might go one way, giving the world the reassurance it hoped for after his reappointment of Pravin Gordhan as finance minist...
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