“…In the three texts under consideration, the ANC is discursively constructed or presented as (1) an organisation which brought freedom to South Africa; (2) a leader of the struggle for change; (3) an organisation still committed to the policies of the RDP and principles of the Freedom Charter; (4) the only force with experience of democratic government; (5) the only organisation in South Africa with plans to transform South Africa into a non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous democracy; and lastly, (6) a mass-based organisation rooted amongst the people, reaching into every social sector and every corner of the land. In this regard, the ANC's discursive construction is rooted in identity politics that focus upon self-interest and perspectives and ways in which people's politics may be shaped by aspects of their identity through race, class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ideology, nation, culture and currency (Chapman 1996).…”