In August 2022, I wrote, “The ANC tradition connotes a set of deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes about the nature of the movement, the role of the ANC in society and the polity, the authentic organization and operation of the human emancipation system it represents, about the way [...]

  Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, one of the ANC’s Presidential candidates at its 55th National Conference, voted against the party’s marching orders. In doing so, she invoked one of the sacred statements by ANC members when acting within the most principled of its many realms. She declared that her yes vote for [...]

     The incapacity to withstand rebuttal from branches of the ANC to lead it has introduced a new breed of politicking. Why is it that questions of who is this are asked of comrades that served it at almost every conceivable level, but an elected position is all of [...]

       Among the emerging narratives and takeaways about the upcoming ANC 55th National Conference is the growing distinction between members of the ANC, who are its guardians and those that are its custodians. To keep an organisation under custodianship is not the same as giving it the guardianship [...]