Not in my name

Now that you’re all gone, here is my last open letter to you as the Rivonia Trialists. I greet you all in the name of the continuing struggles of our people. It’s been almost eight years since I penned an open letter out of frustration to the remaining four of you at the time. That was long before it was acceptable in the eyes of ANC members to be publicly critical of our political home.

I lamented then the rot under Jacob Zuma. The looting of state coffers was just too much, plus the slaughter of the Marikana mine workers by his trigger-happy police officers.

Back then, I found it easier to write to you than any living