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...Africa's proudest democracy that seeps into some of those stereotypes of African Big Men." Raymond Suttner, a former ANC activist who was detained from 1975-1983, talks of how once in power the party let "ambition and greed" lead it into "lawlessness, amorality and criminality." COPE founder Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota tells TIME: "To fight for freedom, you need a liberation organization. But South Africa has moved on now. We need political parties than can deliver services to the people, not reward the loyalty of former activists...
...prison, torture and assassination. But after 14 years as South Africa's ruling party, an internal power struggle appears to have finally torn it apart. Senior members of the party on Wednesday announced plans to leave ANC and form a new political party. At a press conference in Johannesburg, Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, a former political prisoner who served as national chairman of the party and defense minister, said of the present ANC leadership: "We are serving them divorce papers." Lekota said he would convene a national convention of dissatisfied party members and others to discuss "how to defend democracy...
...panic over Zuma? South Africa's élite suspect he's a wannabe strongman in the mold of the rulers in much of postcolonial Africa to the north. Many senior ANC figures regard Zuma with open disdain. Defense Minister Mosiuoa Lekota, an Mbeki supporter, recently warned that anyone who still sang Mshini wami was "not right in the head." Zuma, a heavyset man with an easy charm and ready laugh, dismisses his critics as out of touch with ordinary South Africans. "The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma," he told TIME earlier this year...
...Assembly in October that got a standing ovation from A.N.C. legislators, N.N.P. leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk waxed lyrical about being part of "the building team" of a South African renaissance. In reply, President Thabo Mbeki gushed that Van Schalkwyk had shown inspiring "commitment to a common destiny." A.N.C. chairman Mosiuoa Lekota - whose guerrilla nickname when he was fighting the apartheid regime was "Terror" - said the Afrikaans and black communities "shared similar loyalties" and that committees had been set up to "explore cooperation" between the A.N.C. and N.N.P. at all levels of government...
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