Opinion

Is Ace the reincarnation of Dr No?

Another rigid ideologue snipes from the sidelines and undermines his more pragmatic leaders

16 June 2019 - 00:04 By PATRICK BULGER

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule's not-so-secret guerrilla warfare against President Cyril Ramaphosa over the direction of the ANC and the government echoes an earlier, and equally gripping, saga of intrigue that once ruled SA's political headlines. Magashule may find the long and pointless rebellion of the notorious Dr No, apartheid high priest Andries Treurnicht, to be a cautionary tale. This is especially as Treurnicht, ever the ideological purist, lost out to the forces of reform and reality that would ultimately give way to a democratic SA. His was a show of thunder and fury, signifying not much at all...

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