Restless Nation. William Gumede

first family becomes the first to feed, followed by the cabinet and provincial leadership, and our people come last to find absolutely nothing – not even bones’.

      In the past, genuinely democratic leaders have sprung up from within or come from outside to move the ANC back onto the right path. Recently, a number of new civil groups have been formed to try and do just this. Corruption Watch, launched last year by trade unions and civil groups, and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), launched by such luminaries as the former speaker of parliament Frene Ginwala, are examples of two such organisations. But unless truly democratic groups take control of the ANC, and elect a better calibre of leaders, the ANC may lose its way completely.

      ARISE magazine, March/April 2012