Premium: Zille on the offensive, exposes how ANC’s “Broederbond” executive controls SA

My one-time next-door neighbour Nick Binedell is best known as founder and leader of GIBS. For me, the widely travelled, much-read academic/businessman is, rather, a marvellous provider of context around much that has and is happening in my homeland.

Nowadays Binedell keeps his political affiliation to himself. But as an activist pre-1994, in the early period of ANC rule he was staunchly supportive of the movement. So, when he criticised the party it came from the right place and was invariably on the mark.

Among aspects of such conversations that shocked an outsider like me was Binedell's evidence-based perspectives of how much the ANC had learnt from and then replicated its predecessor, SA's Apartheid-driven National Party.

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