No one in South Africa can say that Congress of the People did not warn about the calamity that Jacob Zuma would inflict on South Africa. I wrote to Gwede Mantashe on 3 October 20018 to warn the ANC of the serious departures from the Freedom Charter that it had begun to embark on.
I expressly warned in my letter that "This state of affairs (in the party) leaves me and many other comrades, no doubt, with a clear sense that our membership to the organisation is an endorsement of practices that are dangerous to the democracy that many people in our country struggled to bring into being". The hope that the post Polokwane leadership would address our concerns with integrity dissipated in the arrogance with which my letter as a loyal, leading and long-standing member of the party was treated.
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