More African than African National, the ANC enters the electoral arena carrying a lot of heavy baggage, writes Tony Leon.
Last Friday evening, I attended a dinner in Cape Town addressed by the writer and associate editor of the conservative magazine, The Spectator, Douglas K Murray, and author of the best-seller "The Madness of Crowds".
In an interview there with Gareth Cliff, Murray suggested that South Africa's case against Israel on genocide charges before the International Court of Justice, fitted a trope of sorts: "When governments can't attend to the basics, they try something grandiose."