ANC chooses Zuma over SA again
29 November 2016
The decision taken by the ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to continue to support and endorse Jacob Zuma and his leadership of the country should come as no surprise.
An unconventional attempt to table of “motion of no confidence” in Jacob Zuma at this weekend’s meeting of the NEC was defeated convincingly, once again illustrating that the naïve belief that the ANC can self-correct is simply untrue. It quite clearly shows that the ANC still supports Zuma, and support him fully.
That is because Jacob Zuma is not an anomaly within the ANC, he is the norm: he is only the most vivid manifestation of what the ANC has become - an irredeemable and toxic mix of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.
Furthermore, despite the brave face and united façade depicted by Gwede Mantashe, the ANC is more divided now than it has ever been – and this will only worsen. This divide is between the majority of the ANC who envisage the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) as a means to self-enrich, and a small minority, without a voice, who are unsuccessfully trying to uphold the Constitution and the Rule of Law.