Coalitions talk not on ANC agenda
Better to win back support, says Mthethwa
The question of coalitions has not taken root in the ANC’s strategy and tactics discussions, which are meant to steer the troubled party out of its state of decline. Instead, the chairman of the party’s subcommittee on political education, Nathi Mthethwa, said it would be self-defeating for the ANC to preoccupy itself with coalition strategies when it was aware of what it ought to do to win back the support of the electorate by 2019. With the ANC’s moral compass and governing capacity weakened, there is already speculation in some quarters that it needs to begin positioning itself for possible coalitions as an outright victory was getting more unlikely in the face of scandals, corruption and other misdeeds by its leaders and deployees in government. Briefing the media during the national policy conference, Mthethwa said that while the subject was being tackled in the governance subcommittee in the context of the 2016 local elections, which forced the party to enter into partnerships...
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