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DEEP QUESTIONS May 2021: BY FM Lucky Mathebula


1. What is the possibility that some of the leaders we have, became ANC members because of their dislike or hatred of apartheid, but they do not necessarily like to be ANC members as persons

2. Are all members of the ANC it’s members because of what it stands for, or what it stood against, or what they can get out of it?

3. Can the ANC be classified as a formal political party or a conglomeration of formation types whose direction depends on who leads it and/or who buys it?

4. If the ANC is a Nationalist Movement, what is Nationalist about it, if it is not, what is it then?

5. Assuming there is an ideology that glues ANC members, what is it? How does it inform its day to day operations? 

6. Can the ANC NEC genuinely claim it is dealing with corruption?

7. Was there ever a New Dawn, post NASREC 2017? Or was NASREC indeed a Rand Easter Show Venue resembling the Emperor's Palace Gambling Venue?

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