The common refrain in the ANC circles, forums and platforms has been the catchphrase of “unity and renewal”.
It has almost become a passcode for any leader’s speech in search of relevance, in whatever platform; be it in the flimsy “public lectures”, conferences of the organisation and those of its so-called Alliance partners, and of course, during meetings.
However, there’s so much said or written about the “once-glorious” organisation of the Afrikan people, on matters of disunity, chaos, crises, fractures, and corruption. This is the situation even as they went to the national policy conference this weekend.
Frankly, the organisation has, through many phases of history, transmogrified into an inglorious movement which has become a vehicle for pursuance of personal agendas, rather than the principled project of liberating the natives…