STAR TREK AND THE ANC

The ANC's reaction to the Nene/Van Rooyen/Gordhan debacle demonstrated a collective mindset strikingly similar to a fictional alien race featured in the Star Trek franchise known as the Borg Collective.  Its members function as automaton drones in a hive-mind called The Collective represented by a queen who is. . . "the beginning, the end, the one who is many".  The Borg are collectively aware, but not aware of themselves as separate individuals, except for the queen who is head of state.  

Based on the ANC's reaction to the country's recent financial meltdown, and calls to remove Zuma, there are conspicuous similarities between the Borg and the ANC's hive-minded collective.  However, there is a noteworthy difference - the Borg is fiction whereas the ANC's  destructive hive-minded collective is real.