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MALAIKA MAHLATSI | Mantashe asking EC residents to forgive the ANC is disrespectful (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe addressed members of the Rhini community at Noluthando Hall in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), Eastern Cape. It was part of the ANC campaign in the Sarah Baartman region before the November 4 local government elections. Mantashe urged supporters not to abandon the ANC for newer political parties, arguing that it would take any replacement party 30 years to learn how to govern, because that’s how long it took the ANC to “master” governance. H
MALAIKA MAHLATSI | The other 9/11 and the prioritisation of American lives (opens the original)
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Last Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks in New York. On the day, two planes were flown into the Twin Towers, causing both to collapse and devastating Lower Manhattan. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US department of defence, just outside the country’s capital, Washington DC. The last plane crashed in a rural field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought off the hijackers. The series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda le
MALAIKA MAHLATSI | How the mighty secretary-general position in the ANC has fallen (opens the original)
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In 1912, when the South African National Native Congress (SANNC) that would later become the ANC was formed, its secretary-general (SG) was acclaimed intellectual and journalist Sol Plaatje, a man whose works we still revert to across many academic disciplines. Since then the party has elected 16 SGs. Individuals who have held the position include James Calata, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Duma Nokwe, Alfred Nzo, Cyril Ramaphosa, Kgalema Motlanthe and Gwede Mantashe. Calata is one of the most im
MALAIKA MAHLATSI | Was Motlanthe correct that the ANC needs to lose power to renew? (opens the original)
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In September 2017, former president Kgalema Motlanthe sat for an interview with the BBC’s HARDtalk and presented a stunning argument. He stated it would be good for the ANC to lose electoral power. The basis of his argument was that “those elements who are in it for the largesse will quit it and will desert it, and only then would the possibility arise for salvaging whatever is left of it”. Motlanthe didn’t believe an ANC that still possessed any degree of state power could be genuinely renewed,
MALAIKA MAHLATSI | The dangerous messiah syndrome shaping our politics (opens the original)
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The messiah syndrome, also known as a messiah or saviour complex, is a psychological state where a person strongly believes they are “chosen” or responsible for saving, fixing, or rescuing others. In the case of South Africa, it doesn’t only express itself in people believing themselves to be saviours, but also in a collective thinking that an individual out there is going to rescue us and fix our country. Nowhere is this more evident than during an election year, where discourse often centres o
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