{"id":6835,"date":"2012-01-08T20:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-1-insight-on-uneasy-anc-centenary-a-call-for-cleansing\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:28:25","slug":"update-1-insight-on-uneasy-anc-centenary-a-call-for-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-insight-on-uneasy-anc-centenary-a-call-for-cleansing\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-INSIGHT-On uneasy ANC centenary, a call for cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Calls grow for ANC to return to founding values<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Corruption endemic in South Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC beset by factional fighting<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Political dominance assured, for now<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Zuma quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Pascal Fletcher<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A black<br \/>\nbull bellows and snorts in its death throes, sacrificed with a<br \/>\nceremonial spear in an age-old African cleansing ritual to ward<br \/>\noff evil spirits and appease the souls of ancestors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African President Jacob Zuma led the purification<br \/>\nceremony at the weekend at the site where the ruling party he<br \/>\nleads, the African National Congress (ANC), was born 100 years<br \/>\nago. The birth launched decades of exile, protest and armed<br \/>\nstruggle that finally ended apartheid white-minority rule in<br \/>\n1994, when elections ushered in a multi-racial democracy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that it be cleansed,&#8221; said Baba Ndungane, a<br \/>\nZulu &#8220;sangoma&#8221; or traditional healer, speaking near the Waaihoek<br \/>\nWesleyan Church.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The brick, tin-roofed building where a century ago Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\noldest liberation movement was formed in a black township in the<br \/>\ncity of Bloemfontein is now dwarfed by the looming towers of a<br \/>\ndisused power station.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Calls grow for ANC to return to founding values * Corruption endemic in South Africa * ANC beset by factional fighting * Political dominance assured, for now (Adds Zuma quotes) By Pascal Fletcher BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, Jan 8 (Reuters) &#8211; A black bull bellows and snorts in its death throes, sacrificed with a ceremonial [&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-6835","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\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}