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Letters to the editor: July 14 to 20 2017
Corruption: The ANC can no longer rely on its history or on slogans to win support. (Delwyn Verasamy)
ANC can’t offer solutions
One of the problems facing the ANC in the 21st century is to acknowledge that although it remains the leader of our society, South Africa is now facing new “teething troubles”. This requires new ideas to generate dialogues driven by a national agenda and a common vision across the racial line.
The ANC’s discussion documents look to me like a repetition of words, with no solutions. In all of these documents the ANC agrees that it must strive to build the national democratic revolution that will liberate Africans and create a nonracial, nonsexist, democratic, united and prosperous nation.
But can the state lead the way to a prosperous nation when its government officials are implicated in corruption?
One finds here that the rhetoric aims at bamboozling the public that the party chosen is the correct one, with sound policies. The hidden agenda is for party members to get elected so that, once in office, they can loot as many resources as they can.
In South Africa right now, we have a sitting president, Jacob Zuma, facing a possible the possible reinstatment of 783 counts of fraud, corruption and money-laundering.
This is the problem facing the ANC: its president, with dubious credentials, is positioned as the centre of power that controls the state and the ruling party. We have seen how powerful the head of a ruling party can be, as evidenced by the expulsion of Julius Malema and other executive members of the ANC Youth League in 2013.
Some were expecting the ANC to fix these problems at its 2017 policy conference, but it didn’t. Central to this gathering was “radical economic transformation”, which is more repetition of words than action. – Sibusiso Ndlovu, journalism lecturer, Damelin
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