EDITORIAL: Odds tilt in favour of an ANC split
It has been business as usual as the party ignores the accelerating slide into irrelevance and chaos
The pieces are moving towards the ANC’s national elective conference in December and the ominous words of the party veterans, in their critique of the party last year, loom large. Last December, 101 of the party’s elders delivered a scathing indictment of what the ANC leadership has allowed in a document entitled "For the Sake of our Future", which they handed to President Jacob Zuma. They warned that should the ANC continue on its current path, it would split or, even more ominously, lose power. "The leadership of the ANC has ... preoccupied itself with defending personal interests, interests of colleagues, families and friends, at the expense of the people of SA, particularly the poor, and the ANC," they said. "The leadership of the ANC has failed to act decisively against corruption, nepotism, factionalism, arrogance and election slates in the ANC and the alliance," they said. The ANC’s chaotic Eastern Cape conference last weekend provided tangible evidence that the elders were c...
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