Opinion

ANC unity written in the bodies of women, children

29 November 2020 - 00:02 By Sunday Times Editorial

The Mpumalanga ANC's flip-flop on reinstating and then reversing the reinstatement of a provincial party boss facing a serious criminal charge illustrates the reality of a party that has lost any claim to a monopoly of the moral high ground. There was a time when the party boasted "The ANC leads", but the passage of 26 years in power has blunted the idealism as the grim reality of retaining power at all costs asserts its ineluctable logic...

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