A fresh class is being inducted into a culture of corruption -- they are learning that the way to political office is through patronage, the dispensing of largesse and even the firing of bullets.
The use of violence to attain an advantage in SA politics has slowly increased over the past few years. This had been seen as largely confined to KwaZulu-Natal, but the death last weekend of a member of the ANC Youth League at a mass meeting in Tshwane suggests the scourge has spread. That people resort to violence for something as apparently low-level as a youth conference indicates that the stakes are, in fact, very high.
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