The tail that wagged the ANC dog, the SACP is now just a gnat on a GNU
The ANC is party in decline, and that’s a reality the communists find hard to grapple with — but then facts are stubborn things
12 January 2025 - 00:00
In July 1998, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki bluntly told stunned delegates at the 10th congress of the SACP that they should either stop telling lies about the government or take a hike. “Tell no lies! Claim no easy victories!” he said, invoking the slogan popularised by Amilcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau...
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