Tebogo Khaas | Why the ANC is beyond repair
When ANC members and supporters praise the party, they often speak of the once pre-eminent political liberation organisation as a “broad church”, a “glorious movement”, a “leader of society”.
While South Africans are going through a spasm of uncertainty as outcomes of ANC leadership contests threaten to imperil our democratic experiment further, some conscientious ANC members are calling for changes to the current way in which the party elects leaders to its structures. Lest we forget, like all banned liberation struggle organisations, and for obvious reasons, the ANC was forced to curtail, if not suspend, certain key democratic practices enshrined in its constitution.
The misalignment of values and expectations became even more pronounced once the party was swept into power after the country’s first democratic elections. And thus a now familiar pattern, whereby the ANC overlooked serious character red flags in its cadres, set in. In fact, from 2007 onwards, the ANC all but abandoned any pretences of abiding by its foundational values of altruism and caring for the society it purported to serve.
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