ANC national chairwoman Baleka Mbete is the latest to acknowledge that scandals surrounding the party’s leaders including its Western Cape chairman Marius Fransman, could be blamed for the party’s poor performance in Cape Town.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the party’s 33-year commemoration of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on Saturday, Mbete said the ANC needed to re-engineer its branch structures and do away with the "foreign culture" of greed in its ranks.ANC heavyweight Ebrahim Rasool, UDF veteran Cheryl Carolus and Mbete addressed the commemorative event and activists attending it. The ANC’s support in the Cape Town metropolitan municipality declined from 32% in 2011, to 24% in 2016. The event on Saturday came during a period of mounting resentment towards top ANC leaders. For example, President Jacob Zuma finds himself implicated in a standoff with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan for control over the Treasury.ANC Western Cape secretary Faiz Jacobs acknowledged Fr...
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