ANC can't fool all people all the time

Being the good professed Marxists that some of them claim to be, the ANC’s leaders seem to have massaged that famous saying of Vladimir Lenin into something more appropriate for present-day South Africa: that commissions are the opiate of the people.

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That’s certainly what comes across from ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s extraordinary statement this weekend that the party had to agree to the appointment of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry because to do nothing would have led to a revolt by ordinary South Africans.

And, according to Mbalula, that revolt would have been even worse than the destructive “insurrection” which happened in 2021, when former president Jacob Zuma was briefly imprisoned for contempt of court.