ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the party should stop "theorising" about its supporters’ challenges and actually do something. He said the ANC should be tuned in to their struggles and bridge the gap between the party and its constituency. He said the ANC was seen to be too distant from society and was mired in corruption and maladministration. "When our people say they are poor‚ we must not theorise in the Union Buildings‚ in Tuynhuys and Luthuli House. We must feel the poverty of our people. We must be able to articulate the challenges our people are going through‚" he said. Ramaphosa was delivering a memorial lecture in honour of Moses Kotane‚ the late general secretary of the SA Communist Party‚ on Saturday in Dawn Park‚ east of Johannesburg. Ending his speech‚ Ramaphosa said "things must change"‚ much to the delight of ANC members attending the event. Earlier‚ Ramaphosa insisted that the ANC needed to "once again" be rooted in the masses in order to understand its his...
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