Toxic legacy taints ANC as it nears 25-year rule in South Africa
2019-01-01 14:40:28 source：The Guardian
January 1, 2019
In a few months time, as winter begins to bite in the southern hemisphere, the African National Congress will face its biggest challenge since it took power in South Africa’s first free elections a quarter of a century ago.
The 25-year milestone will be loudly celebrated. There will be rallies and speeches. The liberation songs that motivated ANC activists during the long, dark decades of its struggle to free South Africa from the racist, repressive apartheid regime will ring out. The memory of Nelson Mandela, Nobel prize laureate, freedom fighter and the country’s secular saint, will be invoked.
But none of this will disguise the harsh reality that 2019 could be the year that will be seen by historians as the beginning of the end for the ANC.
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