POWER-SHARING PROPOSAL
NATASHA MARRIAN: Zuma’s call for unity a ploy to buy time
It is a stealthy way to retain the rotten, patronage-ridden, rent-seeking faction on to whose coat-tails the Guptas continue to clutch
The unity ticket pushed for by President Jacob Zuma at the ANC’s national policy conference in Soweto this week is a facade. It is a stealthy way to retain the rotten, patronage-ridden, rent-seeking faction on to whose coat-tails the Guptas continue to clutch in case they lose the elective conference in December. It would prevent any meaningful attempt by a new leadership to clean up the mess Zuma’s administration will undoubtedly leave behind. The testing of the waters that the policy conference allows each faction that is set to square off at the party’s December elective gathering, did not quite go according to Zuma and his faction’s expectations. It was clear after this group failed to prevent secretary-general Gwede Mantashe from delivering a scathing diagnostic report on the state of the party that Zuma himself had, according to insiders, wanted to block. The numerical advantage this group held for so long is beginning to slip and the balance of forces looks vastly different t...
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