We have nothing to lose but our chains

Is this the end of a beautiful friendship? Or the beginning of the end? Or is it the end of the beginning? Winston Churchill would have known. But the long bond between the ANC and the SACP appears to have reached a crisis.I had not been paying it much attention, but a really excellent article on these pages last week by Piet Rampedi, on the ANC's KwaZulu- Natal provincial congress a week earlier, brought into sharp focus just what an important, and welcome, development a break between the two...