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DEAR ANC The ANC has reached its own crossroads here, with three main options open to it. 1. Keep doing business as usual, "renew" and all that, hope that these voters are so disappointed with the alternatives in the next two years that they come back all by themselves at the end of that time. The lazy, naive, easy option. 2. Keep doing what you do, and sink into insignificance. A sad postscript to potential, and another confirming case study in how poorly liberation parties transition to successful modern leadership. 3. Right now, publicly, bravely, get rid of this clown tent of leaders that dug this hole, have the biggest spring-cleaning that you can think of. Toss outdated ideologies, leaders, cliches and intellectual crutches. For a while, forget about your ideas of consultation, manners and past contributions. Pay whatever cost you have to pay, publicly and privately - do it out in the open. The truth shall set you free, and make you more attractive. Start upgrading - people, policies, skills. Let your redemption be painful, public, and costly to the party. Make it clear that you are doing this because you want to return to, and at lst reach your potential. Hang on to the last semblance of that history, that proud tradition, that potential that so many of us saw in you. You may find that somewhere in there - underneath all the disappointment, the distrust, the ridicule - some of us still want to believe in you. And that is the only way back. The hard, painful, expensive way back. If that sounds like too much integrity and hard work - the garbage can of history awaits