KZN ANC and the desperate politics of shaming
13 October 2021
With the litany of failures and broken promises from the ruling party, the campaign for Local Government Elections is practically writing itself. Opposition parties have a plethora of examples to point to in showing why the ruling party needs to be voted out.
The IFP, however, has never been one to crow about other’s failures. As the Official Opposition in KwaZulu-Natal, and a strong national opposition to the ruling party, the IFP has based its campaign – not on their failures – but on our solutions. We have given South Africa our track record of good governance and honest leadership, and invited everyone to become part of building South Africa.
Despite our focus being on the positive, the ruling party has stayed obsessed with its own failures, and has decided as always that the best form of defence is attack. Their difficulty, however, is in knowing how to attack a Party that offers solutions, honest leadership and good governance.
So when the IFP fell victim to a terrible mistake by a staff member on Monday, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal pounced on it as irrefutable proof of gross malfeasance that supposedly wipes out 46 years of integrity. This is truly desperate.