Mbalula discusses his party's weak showing in local elections and municipal council sittings across the country
The ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula admitted that voters punished the party for being unconvincing in its promise to deal with corruption, unemployment, load-shedding and internal squabbles, among other things.
He said the party ran on a ticket of renewal at the 2017 ANC Nasrec elective conference, where dealing with corruption was at the top of the agenda. It had been necessary for the ANC’s survival‚ but the party had not been able to convince South Africans that it is dealing with it. But‚ he said‚ there was also general unhappiness with Eskom when it comes to areas such as Soweto where residents did not want prepaid metres and had called for unreasonable flat rates of R200 per month when they were actually using more electricity.“The ANC was affected heavily by the storm of lack of voter turnout. There are factors — [having the election] on Monday.
The party will now have to explain to its constituency why it performed poorly at the polls and, according to Mbalula, there are already “rebels” in the party calling for heads to roll at the ANC’s highest decision making body, the national executive committee .
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