Not at all! Think of it this way; The ANC was established to seek inclusion in power, about a 100 years ago. It then changed strategy and sought 'seizure' of total 'power', for itself, and no one else, using internal people as its cannon fodder, whilst enjoying donation funds in exile. This entrenched whatever bit of accountability it had to anyone. Its dream was fulfilled in 1994, using the same poor people as a stepping stone. Its aging leaders have no more ambition, nor future to protect and nurture, than 'catching up for luxuries they could not enjoy in exile. Meanwhile, they have to mortgage the whole future, in order to do so. Furthermore, the world has moved on from the Industrial Age, during which their dreams, and values were shaped up. The world has flattened such that any state is a tiny village, amongst giant states and economies, grappling with completely different rules of the new, unknown game.

I am no spring chicken myself. But I know that the old like to impose rules that applied in old days, on the youth. They know that they will not live to account for failure to reason, and view the world with a fresh pair of eyes. Or leave it up to those who are not burdened by old values, that are out of place in a new environment. Think away from tradition of dictatorship; where the strong impose their will on the weak; the kings on their subjects; the rulers on the ruled; the parents on the children; the rich on the poor.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom -
Stephen Vincent Benet.

'Wisdom' is the power of the brain. Without it even physical strength wilts.