South Africa: ANC Gauteng - Charting Its Own Path Through Stormy Weather

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So much of our politics is loud and boisterous, and to use an advertising phrase, 'above the line', that we sometimes forget that within the African National Congress and the Alliance there are different factions trying to do things differently.

When we do think of them, it's in terms of Cosatu or the SACP, or even an historic entity known as the ANC Youth League. In fact, the group within the Alliance that is now the most different from the rest is the ANC Gauteng. By STEPHEN GROOTES.

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