The ANC was taken overlong ago by the South Africa Communist Party (SACP). It has never been democratic.
The Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Comm., held very important and penetrating hearings on the ANC/SACP in the early 1980s before it was abolished by the Democrats.
It included testimony by two former ANC high ranking members. One Democrat senator purposely revealed the true identity of one of the witnesses which allowed the communists to assassinate him.
Unfortunately I don’t have immediate access to the 2 volumes hearings right now but it should be on the internet if you are interested to learn what was in them and who the Democrat betrayed was.
“Soviet, East German and Cuban Involvement in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa - Report of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism to the U S Senate Committee on the Judiciary, November 1982”.
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