The death of apartheid’s last president Frederik Willem de Klerk, brought into sharp relief the vital and urgent need for the ANC to return to its core business, namely doing politics.
This gave rise to a political posture which informed the political settlement ultimately conceived in 1994.nIn the post-apartheid era, the imperative to build a united and cohesive nation requires that political players across the divide see the cocktail of discourse of the current era for what it is — thoroughly unhelpful. SA is simply too diverse a society, politically and otherwise, for any quarter to ignore its plurality.
We should perhaps start by scrutinising current attempts to cobble together coalitions in the metros lest they fall prey to predatory politico-business elite pacts. Those who hold different political opinions also have a right to exist in a rules-based system that must never be applied with party political lenses. De Klerk died two days after the former commander of Amabutho, Zihogo “Mgilija” Nhleko.
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