Who Said These Words and To Whom were they Said?

"In the African National Congress whenever a challenge arises we look back into history to see how a similar situation was solved at some stage of our rich past. We know, that the movement is still going strong today means that the solution befitted the situation when it arose. We have only one instance where the remedy failed and the centre could no longer hold and the Charterists had to find comfort in the departure of the Pan Africanists. With the benefit of hindsight it is a situation we could have handled better.

We learnt nothing from that as last year we were once again confronted with that and we again split. In the ANC we don't seek new remedies for old ailments but old remedies for new ailments, because nothing is new excerpt for the strand - there's nothing BORSTOL can't fix that cough related. However the challenge posed by former president Thabo Mbeki to the movement was unprecedented, that's why even the pill we applied to remedy it was too bitter for most of us. I hope we learned, and the situation never arises.

If it does I hope we shall know how to handle it wisely, plus that pill is still there, already prescribed."