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A BETTER ANC MUST EMERGE AFTER COVID19

COVID19 has become a departure point for many an analysis about governance, economies, the global order, and even family life. High impact and academic journals are clogged with a variety of articles purporting to be crystal balling into a post-COVID19 world. The rush might be inspired by humanity’s innate character of wanting to anchor status quo thinking as the non-negotiable background of permanence for any future thinking. In this quest humanity tends to forget that after any disruption, what has been, can no longer come back, and efforts at resurrecting that will be in vain. In South Africa, the ANC, arguably the foremost nexus of its political economy life, would not escape post-COVID19 interrogation by society. As a liberation movement and a custodian of most of the struggle system that defines todays South Africa, the ANC had gone through a number of phases that shaped its form and character. In this journey, it has not been a roller coaster ride, but a journey of deepe...