ANC Saga: Drama And Tender Moments

Dear ANC

Out of the heat, dust and noise of your little family squabble come some literary gems that should be preserved for posterity.

This tweet from Ms Bathabile Dlamini still gives me goosebumps:

"When you have an organisation within an organisation the organisation will collapse.We take decisions but because people have meetings ,take decisions before actual decisions of the ANC NEC.even those we trusted and thought were beyond reproach have been used ,what’s the price"

Succinct, muscular language that also conjures up images of plotting in smoky rooms, dark deeds and daggers concealed in diverse places. There's a Murder She Wrote feel to this wonderful, all-too-short piece. 

It reminds me of Dr Ace's seminal work:

 "I met with Zuma but I did not intend on meeting with Zuma as a meeting is not necessarily a meeting to meet individuals but rather a meeting intended to meet with him in a capacity that we had already met."

An ill-mannered, ignorant friend described your rambl..., sorry,  writings, as gobbledygook. It's challenging to parcel up the complexity and mystery of  ANC life in a brief statement or tweet. He may have thought that he heard the anguished screams of the tortured English language.  But, hey, great writing and profound thought can be like that.

This saga should be on TV.  Yes, I know that SABC minutely chronicles even your most obscure doings. I am talking about a dramatic series to rival Durban Gen.

Shot through with wildly hilarious episodes and lots of tender moments, we'd be a cert for an Emmy. Oh hang on, we can't accept an award from those meddling, imperialist Americans who grudgingly donate billions from time to time. There must be a prestigious Russian award somewhere. At any rate, we already have a Tony for the side-splitting episode about the fellow chosen to head up an integrity committee.

For family viewing, we'd have to omit the shootings that happen in various municipalities. Even if they do make up an integral part of the drama.

The child who ran away from home, the fascinating EFF, also shows great promise. I am rather concerned about scurrilous rumours on social media that the CIC has been 'doing coke'. That would be scandalous. Coke, after all, is the quintessential symbol of American capitalist greed. Particularly, paired with a hamburger. What about Co-ee, JIVE and other South African brands? EFF, please attend to this and let us know what you have sniffed out.

Yours in the struggle for great South African literature and television.

Richard

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