South Africa: Watch the Gauteng ANC - Its Fate Could Determine Ruling Party's National Future

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We live in a time when corruption is winning, when a defence minister can smuggle a live human being into the country and not suffer any punishment for it (who knows what else must have been smuggled over the years). When the finance minister and the president appear to be in open conflict. The main reason is the lack of incentive to govern well, with no perceived consequence for governing badly.

But Gauteng has appeared to be the one province where the ANC is behaving differently, partly because of the perceived risk of losing power. Which is why suggestions that its leaders have been bullied into withdrawing their original condemnation of President Jacob Zuma over the Constitutional Court's Nkandla ruling are so significant, and disturbing. By STEPHEN GROOTES.

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