Another split in the ANC may be inevitable, given the display of denial by party and alliance leaders over the ills facing Africa’s oldest liberation movement. When asked after the last national executive committee (NEC) meeting whether calls by party structures for President Jacob Zuma to step down were discussed, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said much time had been spent on it and, in the end, the party leadership agreed it should focus on uniting the party rather than dividing it. What is the point of consulting structures when their views are not incorporated into the party’s decision-making processes? It was Zuma himself who declared in 2011, and more recently, at the national general council last year, that the branch is the "lifeblood of the ANC", yet when its voice turns on him, it is silenced. A national working committee report to the NEC compiled by Mantashe indicates a number of regions called for Zuma and his leadership core to step down. After the Constitutional Co...
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