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Will real leaders please stand up?

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August 26, 2025

The speculation that ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula and deputy president Paul Mashatile have agreed a truce and to work together in the party's leadership race is bizarre... but disturbing at the same time.

It's as if Tony Soprano and Don Corleone were getting together to break bread, leaving the sub-machine-guns at the door of the ristorante. Fair enough, those wise guys are fictional, but the ANC as a mafia organisation is closer to reality than fantasy.

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