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Jettisoning its claims for non-racialism and for a more inclusive country suggests the ANC might have chosen the wrong turn - along with the water and electricity outages on which it is likely to be judged, writes the author. (Dirk Kotze/Gallo Images)
Jettisoning its claims for non-racialism and for a more inclusive country suggests the ANC might have chosen the wrong turn - along with the water and electricity outages on which it is likely to be judged, writes the author. (Dirk Kotze/Gallo Images)

More African than African National, the ANC enters the electoral arena carrying a lot of heavy baggage, writes Tony Leon.

Last Friday evening, I attended a dinner in Cape Town addressed by the writer and associate editor of the conservative magazine, The Spectator, Douglas K Murray, and author of the best-seller "The Madness of Crowds". 

In an interview there with Gareth Cliff, Murray suggested that South Africa's case against Israel on genocide charges before the International Court of Justice, fitted a trope of sorts: "When governments can't attend to the basics, they try something grandiose."

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