The trajectory is irreversible, but the collapse of such a dominant organisation as the ANC affects everyone
22 December 2022 - 05:00The image of the ANC is so severely battered that it is difficult to imagine what the party will look like after its national elective conference. Ordinary ANC members, and South Africans in general, are disillusioned with the party leadership. The party has to deal with a host of factors that contributed to the current paralysis. The Phala Phala scandal has compounded issues even further.
Will the ANC survive its internal turmoil? Is there a rescue plan? The party’s warring factions appear to be preoccupied with the quest to control state resources for their private benefit. The late Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi once poignantly said “the only bright light across the dark African skies of the 1990s was the liberation of South Africa”.
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