There are no heroes or heroines in the ANC NEC
Power don’t come from a badge, or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big and [getting] the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts aint true, you got them by the balls.
(Corrupt politician, Senator Burke in the film, Sin City)
There are no heroes or heroines in the ANC NEC; the latest and second attempt by an Mbeki lieutenant to remove President Zuma from office may tempt one to think there is hope for this once glorious organisation. This is not the case.
This remnant Mbeki faction has eagerly attached itself to the larger current anti-Zuma faction and wants to make a political come-back, given the ripe prevailing objective and subjective conditions in the country.
This same Mbeki faction previously enjoyed political power and began the network of cronyism and patronage which has now taken on a life of its own, and which is now in full swing for the benefit of the Zuma and Gupta families and their acolytes.