JUSTICE MALALA | One thing you can bank on is the ANC spouting hot air
Over the past 29 years the ANC has proved very good at talking about change but not very good at realising it
22 January 2023 - 20:48
Between 1912, the year the ANC was formed, and 1994, when it came to power for the first time, the party talked incessantly about change. In those 82 years of pain and hard slog “change” became the mantra of the party. In the 1910s it beseeched the British for change, in the 1920s and 30s it petitioned the government for change, in the 1940s and 50s it marched peacefully against the apartheid government — for change...
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