LETTER: No-talent ANC must agree with radicals to survive

I refer to Peter Bruce’s most recent column (“Bid to stop Zuma running was stupid from the start,” April 11).

The focus of the non-radical opposition in SA must be primarily to displace the ANC from governing in Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, on top of the Western Cape. This will remove it from the economic hub of SA and relegate it to fighting the radicals for the rural provinces.

It will reduce the ANC to the politics of swooning in front of tribal leaders and pastors, rather than trying to run a 21st-century economy. And from there, the path will only be downhill.

It appears almost certain that the ANC will need to form a coalition to achieve a majority in parliament. At 37% it can only form an effective coalition with the radicals if they all agree to get together. But in the fight for positions it’s hard to see them all agreeing to anything.

Our hope is that there will be a government of national unity, because on its own the ANC is totally out of ideas. With clueless Fikile Mbalula as secretary-general, all it has to offer is noise. Certainty not talent.

Richard Bryant
Via BusinessLIVE

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