South Africa: The ANC Is Virtually Bereft of Substance

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Listening to Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula spew forth emptily, during his report-back on "Organisational Renewal" at the ANC's National Policy Conference, was simply proof that the ANC is virtually bereft of substance. Mbalula clearly revels in being behind a microphone. What followed can only be described as a stream of consciousness of which James Joyce might have been proud. Unmediated, it certainly was.

Fikile Mbalula fired off at Black First Land First (BLF) for its protest outside the home of journalist and editor, Peter Bruce. On that, his vacuous utterances went as follows, "We must hit them hard even when they march to [South African Communist Party second deputy general secretary] Solly Mapaila's home; we must also hit them hard when they march to Peter Bruce's house... when they come to my house, I'll finish them."

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