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There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a country when a long story reaches its final chapter. It is not the silence of peace, nor the silence of defeat. It is the silence of reckoning. South Africa is entering that silence now as the African National Congress, once the architect of the democratic dawn, continues its slow descent from the centre of national life.
For years, South Africans have asked the same question in taxis, taverns, churches, WhatsApp groups and boardrooms: what happens when the ANC finally falls?
Analyst Siyabonga Hadebe recently sharpened that question, arguing that the ANC’s decline is not merely the…
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