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SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: ‘Leaders’ will be punished
ANC’s failure to rein in and fire its corrupt elites is a choice the party has made: a choice of its morally bankrupt and clueless leadership over the people it once served
The ANC’s failure to lead has made it easy for voters in the next elections. The masses will reward its lack of leadership with punishment at the polls. The party’s failure to rein in and fire its corrupt elites is a choice the party has made: a choice of its morally bankrupt and clueless leadership over the people it once served. It seems to be centuries ago that the party of Oliver Tambo, Lilian Ngoyi and Albert Luthuli was the undisputed leader and guiding light of the progressive, freedom-starved masses. Yet Albertina Sisulu and Joe Slovo, for example, walked this earth until relatively recently. Today the ANC is not even a shadow of its former self. The visionary leadership of Tambo has been replaced by the criminal hand of the nation’s rulers in Saxonwold.When the leadership collective met in Pretoria last weekend the bravery formerly associated with the party of Solomon Mahlangu, who gave up his life in the service of the people, was absent. Nowhere to be seen was the valour ...
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