Who “owns” anti-apartheid heritage?
Since South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 and the decisive victory of the African National Congress there have been several scandals involving the ruling party. But the ANC’s level of electoral success in post-apartheid South Africa has made the country, to all intents and purposes, a one-party state. It is a remote possibility that any other party could succeed to power unless the ANC itself splits into warring factions. Once perceived as the younger and more radical sister of the ANC, the Pan-Africanist Congress founded by Robert Sobukwe, and led by inspirational thinkers and...