I once started writing a play about party politicals, starring this rabbit. Having seen Feelgood, I wish I had finished it. Apologies all round, a personal phone call from the minister of education and a severe reprimand for some naive person in the Johannesburg area education department. Her book, July's People, is restored to the educational canon. But Gordimer herself has come in for criticism, in particular from the commentator RW Johnson, for her equivocation on ANC lapses.
History shows that it is inviting disappointment to mistake a political party for a movement.