ANC provincial leader warns ANC must modernise or die
'We can’t continue to fossilize the movement. The ANC has to go through a thorough process of modernisation'
South Africa’s ruling party must modernize by allowing open campaigning and U.S.-style primaries to choose its leaders or it will suffer at the polls, its new chairman in Northern Cape province said. Zamani Saul, 45, said the African National Congress needs to reinvigorate itself as it prepares to choose a successor to President Jacob Zuma when he steps down as the party leader in December. A supporter of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Saul was elected the party provincial chairman on May 12 after Sylvia Lucas, the premier of Northern Cape and Zuma ally, dropped out of the race. Ramaphosa’s main rival is Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the president’s ex-wife and former head of the African Union Commission. “We can’t continue to fossilize the movement,” Saul said in an interview in the city of Colesberg. “The ANC has to go through a thorough process of modernisation.” When he appeared at the party conference that elected Saul, Ramaphosa, 64, drew an enthusiastic reception, with many of t...
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