In this week’s Friday Briefing we investigate the new brand of politics beyond the traditional, and try to look beyond where we are now, to what might come in future.
If former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa is to be believed, there are rumblings of yet another breakaway formation from the party. In a speech last week, Phosa said “long-time loyalists have irrevocably given up hope that the party, which liberated SA, will reach deep within and renew itself”.