The African National Congress is like an elephant, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said recently. It moves slowly but, once resolved, it crushes decisively and ferociously.
Thursday was the day the elephant's foot came down on Julius Malema, the enfant terrible of South Africa's governing party, who was dismissed as youth league president and suspended for five years.
The ANC's disciplinary committee insisted that Malema's offences were "very serious", hurting the party and South Africa's reputation abroad, and that no political pressure had been exerted on its 10-week deliberations.
However, it is well known that a corrosive power struggle within the ANC brought the confrontation to a head. Full story...
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Thursday was the day the elephant's foot came down on Julius Malema, the enfant terrible of South Africa's governing party, who was dismissed as youth league president and suspended for five years.
The ANC's disciplinary committee insisted that Malema's offences were "very serious", hurting the party and South Africa's reputation abroad, and that no political pressure had been exerted on its 10-week deliberations.
However, it is well known that a corrosive power struggle within the ANC brought the confrontation to a head. Full story...
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