When Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota led a group of high-ranking colleagues out of the African National Congress last October, it looked as if he was sparking something of a revolution in South African politics.
Triggered by the controversial way in which former President Thabo Mbeki had been sacked from the presidency a month previously, the split was the most important in the governing party since the late 1950s, opening up the possibility of a real competition for votes among the country’s majority black population.
