Questioning the ulterior motives to ‘step aside’
THE noble notion of integrity has ostensibly become the central tool of (ab)use in the raging factional battles within the ANC. This is said against the backdrop of the contested “step aside” rule somehow attributed to a resolution the party adopted at its last conference held at Nasrec in 2017.
In recent months this matter has been the subject of pontification and reinterpretation by various commentators and so-called political analysts to advance their own personal, political and moral preferences rather than objective legal analysis.
One of the “dangerous” discoursal terrains to venture into these days is, thus, the subject line of the (ab) use of this notion and the resultant “step-aside” ploys in this factionalised space of the ruling party. Put bluntly, it seems to me, “integrity” is the new weapon at the disposal of one of
