Current ANC a mere shadow of its former glorious self, says Mathews Phosa
ANC stalwart Mathews Phosa has implored the party’s cadres not to allow themselves to be blindly loyal and instead support him in his call for President Jacob Zuma to step down. "Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by populists and false prophets‚ do not become hopeless and apathetic – If you allow this to happen‚ we will have lost it all‚" he told a Freedom Day celebration in the Langa township in Cape Town on Saturday. If Zuma was truly committed to South Africa and its people‚ Phosa added‚ then he should do the honourable thing and make way for those that want to save the party and the country’s democracy. He said the current ANC was but a mere shadow of its former glorious self and that the country’s democracy was under threat a mere 22 years after its attainment. "The current leadership will do nothing for our people other than that for which they have become reviled – theft‚ corruption‚ external capture and rampant mismanagement." No-one could convince him‚ he said‚ that th...
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