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Mpumelelo Mkhabela | In a festival of crookery, it was the lesser of scandals that carried the day

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The newly elected ANC top 7 stand together for a photo at the party's 55th National Elective Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg, 19 December 2022.
The newly elected ANC top 7 stand together for a photo at the party's 55th National Elective Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg, 19 December 2022.
Yeshiel Panchia/News24

In the fight to dominate the ANC, it was not about wrong or right. It was about who is worse than the other. It was also about the risk of the losers facing annihilation in the aftermath of the battle, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.

In the end, it was an outcome of a competition for dominance by mainly four ANC groups that we can best identify by their respective scandals, not ideas.

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