Your president calling on you....

[Dave A]

The big purge has begun.

It would seem so. And on the grounds of a new sin against the party that once claimed to be a house for all - being "factionalised."

What has me quite curious is that Kgalema is being used to do the dirty work.

[Chrisjan B]

He is being used because he dared to oppose the Zoomer and also aforementioned person seems to be untainted...

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[Justloadit]

Well Kgalema is on his way out any way so he can be the one wielding the stick.

But another thought, whilst the ANC purges those against the current leader, does it not open itself for the respective members to move across the floor so to speak, and join the two new opposition parties that have recently formed, taking with them their loyal constituents, which in turn will mean less votes for the ruling party at the next election?

Not that the opposition will be that strong, but may be enough to tip the scales and reduce the leading party below the 50% mark. Or is this an optimistic thought?

[Chrisjan B]

I for one will be ecstatic if it happens...

[wynn]

To understand why there is so much corruption and nothing being done about it you have to realize that it is the easiest way of controlling cadres.
First you have a security organization that spies on the cadres in question, then you allow them to influence tenders etc. to their or their families financial advantage, then if they step out of line you use the information gathered by the spooks as a big stick to beat them to your will.

If they still continue to step out of line you beat the hell out of them, witness Malema et al.

[Justloadit]

To understand why there is so much corruption and nothing being done about it you have to realize that it is the easiest way of controlling cadres.
First you have a security organization that spies on the cadres in question, then you allow them to influence tenders etc. to their or their families financial advantage, then if they step out of line you use the information gathered by the spooks as a big stick to beat them to your will.

If they still continue to step out of line you beat the hell out of them, witness Malema et al.

Hoover did this successfully for decades

[Chrisjan B]

True about Hoover -but the cadres were trained in the East Bloc where we called it communism....
In sunny SA they added the moola.....

[pmbguy]

Ian F, you right about Zuma, stupid men don’t ascend to power.

Also, Intellect has little bearing on ethics.

[Blurock]

CCC = Communist Capitalist Club

[IanF]

Good to see that youth wings enjoy stirring.

AfriForum Youth will highlight affirmative action by charging students of different races different prices for a cup of coffee at the University of Pretoria (UP).

White students would pay R5 a cup, coloured and Indians R3, and blacks R1, AfriForum Youth chairman Barend Taute said in a statement.

African National Congress supporters would be given a free cup of coffee if they dropped a donation into a box marked "Corruption Fund".

Taute said the campaign was being held to commemorate Freedom Day, and to draw attention to the impact of racial profiling.

"[Nineteen] years after South Africa was ostensibly freed from racial profiling, students at the UP are still admitted based on their race," he said.

"Students want to be free from racial profiling, and this action is a way to show how inane racial bias has become."

Taute said a recent referendum at UP indicated that 97 percent of students supported the abolition of racial profiling.

The coffee sales would start at 10am on Friday. From Times Live

Now to see if this is seen as satire.
Interesting times.