JUSTICE MALALA: The hollowed-out ANC is heading for implosion
'We are here now. We are on our own. The ANC, once a force for good, is a gang that works merely to protect its leader, Zuma'
Let this sink in: South Africa, you are on your own. The ANC, once a proud, clear-eyed and capable organisation, cannot come up with the solutions South Africa needs to get itself out of the massive problems we face. The battle to build a prosperous, united and nonracial South Africa cannot be won by the ANC. It is up to South Africans to do it. Many of the people who were at the ANC’s national policy conference last week will tell you what a disaster it was. The party — faced with a 27.7% unemployment rate, a junk credit rating, a recession, racial polarisation, increasing protests and, crucially, a corrupt and incompetent president in thrall to the Gupta family — emerged after six days of talks without a single coherent policy to revive the economy.Neither was there a coherent programme on any other issue, except a nonsensical call for the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank. Despite this gargantuan failure, even the “good guy” in this ANC firefight, Cyril Ramaphosa, continued to ...
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