In the last few weeks South Africa has been experiencing an episode that threatens to redefine the ANC from its earned status as a leader of society, to a eremite institution characterised by corruption and factionalism. The State Capture Commission has become a new theatre within which scenes, acts and dramatizations of the ANC’s 'apparent' loss of strategic, moral and ideational leadership is on display and/or played out to the world. Given that the ANC is arguably at the centre of all political life in South Africa, the 'emerging' labelling of the ANC and ANCness as a growing example of what a liberation-movement-cum-ruling-party should not degenerate into, presents a number of questions about the growth and sustainability of the South African democratic experiment. The ruling party status of the ANC makes the state an arena within which its operations will always be evaluated and projected as defining to politics the South African way. Its political methods, parti...
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