As the SACP’s deputy general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, noted in a 2008 article for New Agenda, “The ANC’s 2007 national conference created a situation in which there is the danger of further fragmentation and factionalism, palace politics, a politics of revenge and of rear-guard fight-backs”.

This man has a forked tongue and lacks credibility.

Her face had a healthy glow.

His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, I skeeves him, Charley. She is Italian.