African National Congress Party Appears to Be Fracturing

The splinter group is is calling itself the South African Democratic Congress, and the ANC has sued, claiming that the name is too confusing.

The fracturing of the ANC may be a very good thing. Parties are always opaque to outsiders, and having a meaningful multiparty system tends to bring openness.

I still wonder how much of this is about Jacob Zuma, and how much is an issue of class distinctions between the Oxbridge educated people who have traditionally held leadership roles, and their less cosmopolitan associates.