INTERNAL PARTY POLITICS
XOLISA PHILLIP: ANC members take to public platforms to air policy grievances
'ANC succession has proved to be an all-consuming affair — to the detriment of governance'
Where do comrades go when they want to introspect? Look no further than public forums — lectures, debates, social media and suchlike — instead of the ANC’s own internal structures. The governing party made an undertaking immediately after the 2016 local government elections that it would introspect about its worst showing at the polls since 1994. But that was then. In the months since those results came out, eight to be precise, the ANC is no closer to diagnosing the root causes of its electoral decline than it was in August 2016. If anything, the party is in a state of flux because it is unclear which way the pendulum will swing when it holds its elective conference in December.The national executive committee statements flowing from the ANC in the aftermath of August 2016 have been nothing short of opaque if not downright confused about the true state of the party. The fact that the party has less than three months to prepare for a policy conference and under a year to hold an ele...
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