By Bonke Dumisa
Addressing an ANC gathering in Angola in 1977, the highly respected and longest-serving president of the ANC, Oliver Reginald Tambo, popularly known as OR Tambo, made a powerful statement It is easier to wage a liberation Struggle than to keep political power once in power after the liberation of the country.
People will be expecting a lot of services from you. You will have to satisfy the various demands of the masses of our people. In the process, be prepared to learn from other peoples revolutions. Learn from the enemy also.
The enemy is not necessarily doing everything wrongly. You may take his right tactics and use them to your advantage. At the same time, avoid repeating the enemys mistakes.
When the ANC lost its absolute parliamentary majority of more than 51 percent this year after 30 years of continuous absolute majority since our first democratic elections in 1994, the ANC was forced to heed the words of Tambo, hence the ANCs unprecedented serious political engagement with its arch-rival, the DA, nationally and provincially, and the IFP, mostly for KwaZulu-Natal.
