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The ANC’s reigning in-house stand-up comedian, Douglas Ngobeni, had other delegates in stitches on Thursday when he claimed that Fikile Mbalula had sought to be ANC secretary-general “since 1912”, the year the party was founded.
The way the police and prosecuting authority have handled the matter leaves a lot to be desired.
The party that had been instrumental in the formation of a unified South Africa, and had been its government since then, was in trouble.
In all likelihood, this is the last time the country focuses all its attention on an ANC elective conference, writes S'thembiso Msomi.
It is said that new recruits to the ANC are required, among other things, to familiarise themselves with the party’s 'Through The Eye Of A Needle' document, notes S'thembiso Msomi.