WHEN struggle veteran Mavuso Msimang announced his resignation from the ANC last week, the party didn’t just lose a valued, senior, member. It lost a part of its soul.

Msimang has been a steadfast soldier and a key moral cog of the organisation through a horrific exile period, the armed struggle, liberation from apartheid, government, the Zuma years, and finally, the hope and disappointments of the Cyril Ramaphosa administration...