ANC urged to fire its corrupt members or risk losing the elections

A political analyst has urged the ruling ANC to fire it’s corrupt members or risk losing next year’s general elections.

South Africa will head to the polls in 2024 in what is seen as a key landmark in the political divide.

Instead of growing, the party was in decline and things were likely to get worse next year because the promises made in the 2019 elections had not been met.

The party then asked the electorate to give it a second chance so that it could rectify its mistakes.

The party also apologised for its mistakes, but there had been no improvement. In fact, the level of electorate disgruntlement over government service delivery failures has increased.

But if the ANC asked for a second chance in 2019, will the voters give it a third chance in 2024, with the worsening load shedding, corruption, crime and poor service delivery?

Swana said for the ANC to regain the confidence of the voters, it would have to fire about 70% of its national executive committee members, provincial executive committees and regional executive committees “because they are not fit for purpose and the bulk of the leadership is not ANC at all”.

Another political analyst, Zakhele Ndlovu from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said nothing inspired confidence under the ANC rule. Infrastructure had collapsed and education was substandard, while crime was at its highest.

Ndlovu said the country was faced with a reality where the electorate was not equipped to hold the ANC or their representatives accountable for its failures.

“To hold the representatives accountable, you have to be equipped to know where to look; to say the ruling party has done well or it has not done well,” Ndlovu said.

“I am talking about the vast majority of our voters. The ANC would not have been in power this long if we had voters who knew how to make the right decisions at the polls.”

The ANC had been getting away with not delivering simply because voters were not holding them accountable.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/anc-election-crisis-fire-corrupt/

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