By Alec Hogg
A good friend who is intimately involved in a civic society action group says he has dusted off his old anti-Apartheid activist handbook.
With every day that passes, he says, the ANC acts like the defunct National Party during its last years. It is wracked with internal dissension; has an out of touch leader who rules by decree and fear; and is relying on increasingly outrageous allegations that foreigners want to subvert the national interest.
My pal reckons Zuma’s ANC will meet a similar end. He expects the action will move from the courts to the streets next year. And that like the Nats, the ANC will find out too late that promoting the interests of a single tribe is a mistake in a multicultural society.
SA’s deeply flawed President would have done his country a big favour by accepting the inevitable and resigning over the weekend. But Zuma believes that having given his life to the ANC, this is when he gets repaid. The public interest always comes second to avaricious politicians.
