THEBE MABANGA AND CHARLES MOLELE
THE African National Congress (ANC), arguably the oldest liberation movement on the continent, embarks on its first virtual annual birthday celebrations on Friday as a result of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Usually, the party hosts the celebrations at jam-packed stadium rallies across the country with much fanfare, including pictures of the ANC’s top leadership popping champagne and cutting a multiple layered cake slathered with cream and frosting in the party’s black, gold and green colours.
For all intents and purposes, the ANC needs a candid and brutal reflection to realize it is faced with the most complex identity, leadership, governance, social and economic crises since it assumed power over a quarter of a century ago.
The party has to reform itself while at the same time restructuring the South African economy and changing its ownership patterns in a way that benefits the
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