2 min read
18 October 2022
10:45

President Cyril Ramaphosa is fighting for his political career, but some believe the ANC is fighting to reclaim its former glory days.

Decades of state capture have resulted in a loss of trust in the ruling party, with billions of taxpayer dollars flowing into the coffers of a select few cadres, municipalities collapsing across the country, and health and education in crisis – all under the ANC’s governance.

What options does the ANC have for survival when this year’s December elective conference is almost a carbon copy of the one in 2017, with the same role players vying for positions?

Radio Islam International discussed the future of the African National Congress with political analysts Dr Oscar van Heerden and Nteboheleng Tsehla.

According to political analyst Dr Oscar van Heerden’s opinion piece, the ANC is like the frog in the boiling pot; it doesn’t realize it’s frying and dying.

Van Heerden contends that since the beginning of the democratic era, the ANC elective conferences have always been about how the ANC will renew and reimagine itself.

However, it has failed to put those changes into action.

He stated that if the ANC begins to implement the changes, proposals, and suggestions discussed at the elective conference, they will save themselves from the impending grave.

Furthermore, he stated that had the RET fraction won in 2017, South Africa would have been in a far worse situation, owing to the nature of the then-leading members of the

ANC’s malfeasance, corruption, and looting resulted in state capture.

He stated that the ANC’s deployment strategy is flawed and that they must reconsider to avoid deploying incompetent people to serve the people.

Nteboheleng Tsehla stated that the 2022 elective conference would be the same as the 2017 elective conference in terms of disloyalty and disunity.

[LISTEN] to the podcast here

By Nokwanda Dlangamandla
kzn@radioislam.org.za