It's no joke: we need to imagine SA without the ANC

The demise of the ANC as the dominant party can either lead to disaster, as some predict, or a great opportunity, writes S'thembiso Msomi

12 June 2022 - 00:00 By S’thembiso Msomi

A couple of years ago, at a function attended mostly by black professionals and other direct beneficiaries of the postapartheid order, somebody told a joke about Eskom, Transnet and the ANC’s erstwhile military wing uMkhonto weSizwe. It did not go down well with the audience...

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