ANC leaders at the party’s United Democratic Front (UDF) commemoration this weekend confessed to activists and members that "monsters" had crept into the ruling party with "foreign appetites" to enrich themselves in government.The event, the 33rd annual commemoration of one of the leading anti-apartheid organisations started in the 1980s, took place in Trafalgar High School in Cape Town on Saturday. The UDF civic movement was launched in Mitchells Plain in 1983.Speakers included ANC heavyweight Ebrahim Rasool, UDF veteran Cheryl Carolus and ANC national chairwoman Baleka Mbete. It coincided with an ANC national executive committee meeting with its Western Cape provincial leadership to discuss organisational renewal after losses in the the August 3 local government election. Cape Town was the only metro ruled by the opposition before the election.Carolus told attendees that while the ANC had improved the lives the majority of South Africans, the party had to accept that South Africa...
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