{"id":16420,"date":"2012-11-05T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/rpt-interview-battle-for-spoils-tearing-s-africas-anc-apart\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:32:23","slug":"rpt-interview-battle-for-spoils-tearing-s-africas-anc-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-interview-battle-for-spoils-tearing-s-africas-anc-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-INTERVIEW-Battle for spoils tearing S.Africa&#8217;s ANC apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Repeats with no change to text)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deep ANC rifts pulling party apart &#8211; opposition leader<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* DA gaining steady ground<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zille says Zuma second-term &#8220;sewn up&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley and Peroshni Govender<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Nov 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling party<br \/>\nwill fracture before the decade is out, pulled apart by tension<br \/>\nbetween big business and labour that was laid bare by three<br \/>\nmonths of mining unrest, opposition leader Helen Zille said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Reuters, Democratic Alliance (DA)<br \/>\nleader Zille said the unprecedented mining turmoil, including<br \/>\nthe police killing of 34 strikers at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana platinum<br \/>\nmine in August, had exposed unsustainable contradictions in<br \/>\nNelson Mandela&#8217;s 100-year-old African National Congress.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She attacked the veteran liberation movement that has ruled<br \/>\nSouth Africa since the end of apartheid as &#8220;essentially a<br \/>\npatronage-driven party&#8221;, with those at the centre keeping power<br \/>\nby controlling access to lucrative government contracts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It would be impossible for the ANC to keep organised labour<br \/>\nand communists under the same roof as mega-wealthy<br \/>\npost-apartheid industrialists such as Cyril Ramaphosa, a top ANC<br \/>\ndecision-maker and one of Lonmin&#8217;s biggest shareholders.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Repeats with no change to text) * Deep ANC rifts pulling party apart &#8211; opposition leader * DA gaining steady ground * Zille says Zuma second-term &#8220;sewn up&#8221; By Ed Cropley and Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG, Nov 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s ruling party will fracture before the decade is out, pulled apart by tension between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}