Hain has harsh words for ANC

During the ‘70s and ‘80s, British activist Peter Hain - one of the prime movers in the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and leader of sports boycotts against South Africa - was the man many white South Africans loved to hate, some believing he turned a blind eye to the sins of Africa’s liberation movements.

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Those people would do well to cast an eye over Hain’s latest book, Liberation and Corruption, Why Freedom Movements Fail, which is searing in its assessment of how revolutionaries lose their heads and begin looting. Centre stage, unsurprisingly, is our own ANC.

Although born in struggle and propelled by ideals of freedom, justice and dignity, the ANC fell from grace, as did almost every other liberation movement.