Tokyo Sexwale says that by standing for ANC deputy president despite slim chances, he was honouring democracy within the ruling party.
Tokyo Sexwale believes his contestation of the ANC's deputy president position, and that of others who were competing against what appears to be a shoo-in pro-Jacob Zuma slate, were demonstrating the "courage" required to "kill" the politics of slates and "fear".
Sexwale told the Mail Guardian on Monday that by contesting, "we are killing a number of things, we are killing the politics of slates, we are killing the politics of dragoons, the politics of fear, the politics of people who say 'I have more power than you'."
He added that the aim was to create "a free flowing society. Nationally it is there ... The problem is within the organisation " as the president has condemned it."
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