‘Liberated’ Zuma stokes a tribalist fire that threatens to engulf democratic SA
The ANC and its allies have long promoted nontribalism in a united South Africa, but the MK Party has shamelessly abandoned that notion
14 April 2024 - 00:03
In some respects, the National Party did South African politics a favour. By exploiting ethnicity in its implementation of apartheid, it inadvertently ensured not only that black people would unite against policies aimed at dividing them, but that nonracialism would become the benchmark for the new constitutional order...
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