By Johnathan Paoli
Former president Thabo Mbeki has issued a stark warning to the African National Congress (ANC), saying the party has been infiltrated by people more interested in self-enrichment than the movement’s historic mission of liberation.
Speaking in Durban at a political education class hosted by the ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial task team, Mbeki said the decay in leadership values posed a fundamental threat to the survival of the party.
“Then we started attracting the wrong people, people who were interested in the membership of the party not to pursue the objectives of the movement but for self-betterment, self-enrichment, and that’s a problem,” Mbeki told delegates.
The gathering formed part of the ANC’s renewal programme as it struggles to regain support in provinces like KwaZulu-Natal, once a stronghold but now a region where voter trust has eroded dramatically.
The party’s sharp decline in the 2021 local government elections and the
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