RECOVERY EFFORT
It's not too late to fix the malaise in the ANC, say MK vets
The problems in the ANC did not start under President Jacob Zuma’s leadership, MK leaders say
ANC military veterans say the party has lost the moral high ground, but that it is not too late to fix the malaise. Former generals and commanders of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the ANC’s military wing during apartheid, have organised themselves to help the party after its eight percentage point decline in the local government election. The MK leaders said on Monday that the problems in the ANC did not start under President Jacob Zuma’s leadership, but they intensified under his watch. They regretted not intervening sooner in the crisis facing the party, but did not believe it was beyond repair. "We think the ANC — although it is ill, although it needs to be corrected — is not terminally ill and we have a duty to do everything in our power, even if we have left it late to intervene," former MK general and communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda told journalists in Johannesburg on Monday. "It’s true that the ANC may no longer hold ideological sway; it is true that the ANC may have lost the...
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