Lame! A split in all but name – a rallying cry, calling the faithfully disaffected to get together and plot the way forwards, onwards and outwards.

Lekota isn’t forming a new party yet. But at the press conference to announce that he was definitely thinking about it, his guns were out and blazing. He started off by listing groups of disgruntled ANC members who  have moved to Bantu Holomisa’s UDM, the ID and other opposition parties, then took pot shots at the ANC for abandoning its principles by endorsing tribalism, songs that advocate violence, the elimination of internal democracy, the elevation of individual’s interests to national importance, the rejection of dissent or disagreement through calls to “Kill” for “so-and-so”, and attacks on the independence of the judiciary.  Lekota then said let ANC members should choose to follow either sober leadership, or the likes of Julius Malema.

“We are compelled to… stand up to oppose this deviation, this arrogance, this taking onto itself the right to decide for the people.”

In answer to a question about whether this was a total breakdown of the marriage, or whether marriage counselling would be taking place, Lekota joked that he was announcing the intention to serve divorce papers. Ho ho ho.

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