At best they express an acute deficiency in generosity. A little worse is the ignorant display of ahistory. But the most irritating for me of specially the (UK) Guardian’s pre-ANC centenary commentary is the inability to reposition their lens from caricatures of African political life.
On Thursday, the Al Jazeera English program, “The Stream,” discussed the 100th anniversary of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress or ANC. I was a guest on the 30 minute live show. It proved to be a lot of fun, though technical difficulties meant we did not often hear the other guests.
