Is it prudent for Ace to step aside?
TOUCHING on progress made to forge party unity in his last 2020 political overview, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said the governing party “increasingly appears like an organisation at war with itself”.
His observation affirms the ANC cannot self-correct in that it seems not to understand the nature of its factionalism.
Approaching its watershed 52nd national conference in 2007, the ANC had already split into two factions, one led by Thabo Mbeki and the other one by Jacob Zuma.
Their leaders were the ANC president and the ANC deputy president respectively.
Made up of two kinds of members, namely – to borrow from American author and public speaker Rick Joyner – “those who sacrifice the people for themselves, and those who sacrifice themselves for the people,” the Mbeki and Zuma factions serve as a pathology of
