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Home | ANC faces crisis of authority, legitimacy and trust: Ramaphosa ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says the party is facing a crisis of authority, legitimacy and trust. Ramaphosa says this has been evident in the party’s electoral decline at the May 29 polls, where the ANC lost its majority for the first time in 30 years. Delivering the Oliver Tambo Memorial lecture yesterday in Boksburg East of Johannesburg, Ramaphosa said it is only the ANC that has brought fundamental change to the lives of South Africans in the last 30 years, even though some sectors have written it off.
“We have heard about the ANC now joining the pantheon of national liberation movements that have in quotes failed in governing, all this said of an ANC that over the past 30 years has brought about deep, fundamental, and lasting change to the lives of millions of South Africans.” He warned that internal divisions and factionalism present a serious threat to the party’s unity and future. He said that unity must be a priority to honour the legacy of late ANC leader Oliver Tambo.
“The most serious existential threat we face as the ANC comes from within our movement has been ridden with factional activity, naked careerism and personal ambition.” Ramaphosa noted that the ANC has increasingly struggled with “ill-discipline, political intrigue, ideological rifts, and rising intolerance of divergent viewpoints.” Oliver Tambo Memorial | ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a lecture: Story by: Sibahle Motha SABC © 2024.
