WE MUST now urgently discuss a future that does not have a massive, dominant ANC at its centre. We need to talk about such a future, for it is clear that the ANC is not just fraying at the edges. It is dying. What replaces an organisation that has been at the heart and centre of our lives for 104 years? If the ANC falls, what must — what will — rise in its place? This is the mess we are in today: the universities are under siege. The nihilists on campuses do not want free tertiary education. They want the total collapse of the society we live in, the dismantling of the 1994 project. They do not know what must rise and offer a catch-all phrase for a plan and a vision: decolonisation. The ANC is wracked by deep internal battles, and has no way of responding to the Fallist challenge intellectually. The party is bankrupt. Its intellectuals have no time to analyse and lead the battle of ideas, particularly at these challenging times in our evolution as a society. President Jacob Zuma — a...
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