A capacity for ‘introspection, self-criticism and grasping the nettle of corrective action’ ensured the ANC’s success as a national revolutionary movement. These attributes can help the ANC to manage the tensions created by its own policies.

Z. Pallo Jordan asks whether Marion Grammer’s claims about the role played by Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) in South Africa’s liberation are ‘not a little extravagant?’