ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang disappointed with party, briefly resigns, highlighting ANC's corruption, sparking electoral disillusionment.
veteran Mavuso Msimang confided that he was “disappointed” with the ruling party. Join the club, mate.In December last year, Msimang, then the deputy president of the ANC Veterans’ League, wrote whatdescribed as a “devastating resignation” from the organisation that had been his home for more than 60 years.
The response of the leadership has, at best, been a shoulder shrug and a promise to do something about it,” Msimang wrote. This turned out to be untrue. When the ANC released its electoral list, it remained shot through with alleged state looters.Speaking at an ANC event to celebrate 30 years of democracy, he admits “absolutely” to being disappointed by the betrayal, but still thinks that somehow the corruption problem will be solved.
In a recent series of columns on Polity, he notes the futility of voting for an ANC, but also argues that there are not good reasons to abandon electoral politics entirely. What, then, is the solution? Suttner finds comfort in “glimmerings” of hope in the activities of “religious, caregiving and some professional organisations” and social movements like Equal Education and some NGOs.
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