DEFLECTING attention from President Jacob Zuma and the electorate’s brutal assessment of his leadership is likely to feature strongly at the ANC leadership meeting this weekend. Already the blame is being shifted to the Gauteng leadership, but disbanding or dissolving the party’s provincial structure could simply speed up the demise of the organisation as a whole by cementing the party’s rejection by urban voters.When the Gauteng leadership was dissolved in May 2000, it was due to irreconcilable differences between factions. This time, there are no such divisions. The repeated misdiagnosis of the malignant illness afflicting Africa’s oldest liberation movement continues to accelerate its demise and it looks set to commit the same error after its largest electoral decline.Among these were Gauteng’s metros — Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni as well as Mogale City — and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape.Local elections 2016News, live results and much moreBefore the 2014 electi...
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