Zuma vs Ramaphosa: Bickering ANC Factions Fiddle While South Africa Burns

LUCAS LEDWABA

THE ANC’s latest bickering over who is more corrupt than the other is tantamount to a family squabbling over who should get the juiciest piece of steak at a feast while above them a bigger storm threatens to sweep away their home.

South Africa faces the biggest challenges and storms since the sanctions movement took a toll on the local economy in the late 1980s and early 90s when the international community, spurred on by exceptional and leadership of ANC President Oliver Tambo, mobilized in the fight against Apartheid.

Back then, big corporations heeded the ANC and the Mass Democratic Movement’s call to disinvest from the country to apply pressure on the apartheid regime so it could abandon and dismantle apartheid.

Although this struck a blow to the regime which had lost almost all credibility before the eyes of the world, one of the effects of the sanctions