FUTURE OF THE PARTY ANC
NATASHA MARRIAN: ANC will meet in the last chance saloon
‘The party has one last chance to turn around its fortunes — its coming national policy conference’
The ANC has lost its liberation capital and it has the scandal-ridden presidency of Jacob Zuma and his painful, captured administration to thank for that. This week, the alliance that swept Zuma to victory at Polokwane in 2007 rejected him; Cosatu even booed and heckled him. How on earth could the alliance partners have continued to support him for all this time? He was meant to be different from Thabo Mbeki, but not in this way. Not in the way that, unlike his predecessor, he has a less-than-healthy respect for the rule of law and the Constitution. Let’s not beat about the bush — Zuma has no respect for anything but his own interests and those of his family. The ANC turned 100 on his watch, and there is a good chance that Zuma will be remembered as the president who hammered the final nail into the coffin of Africa’s oldest liberation movement.The party has one last shot to avoid that fate; one last chance to turn around its fortunes. That chance is offered by its coming national p...
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