NATASHA MARRIAN: ANC needs better way to choose leaders
We need to think about how we choose leaders in this country, and carefully. A revolving door of presidents dropped, deserted and despised cannot be healthy for a young democracy with the staggering challenges we face in equalising a society all too accustomed to injustice and oppression in the past. This means that should the ANC wish to remain the governing party for the foreseeable future, it cannot be business as usual in selecting leaders. The leadership of the ANC and the tripartite alliance are at a crossroad. In Cosatu, the leadership has sought to quash the opposing views of affiliates by tip-toeing around the leadership issue. Many union leaders have said it was time for President Jacob Zuma to go, some having been more direct than others, indicating that the mere whiff of him in the party’s 2019 election build-up would be damaging. Yet this was not expressed when Cosatu announced the outcomes of its central executive committee meeting. This has angered the affiliates, who...
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