It does seem that many members of our society in the media and others who write on social media and phone talk-show radios are incapable of seeing the world outside the ANC. As a result, discussions about the ANC's woes appear to these writers and callers to be discussions of SA society’s problems.

The ANC is not SA society. The ANC is a political party — a group of like-minded people who have organised themselves into an entity that can present itself to citizens and contest elections for a mandate to run the affairs of the country, nothing more nothing less...