By Akani Nkuna
ANC head of political education, David Makhura, says the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) has not lived up to its transformative promise, a failure he argues is now undermining the organisation’s performance, governance capacity and service delivery record.
Speaking at the close of the ANC’s 5th National General Council (NGC) in Boksburg, Makhura said the NDR was being derailed by structural weaknesses in the state and within the ANC itself.
This, he said, had left the movement struggling to deliver on its historic mission.
According to the ANC’s base documents, South Africa’s 1994 democratic breakthrough coincided with the rise of global neoliberal policy frameworks, which encouraged limiting the role of the state in development.
Outsourcing and privatisation, the document argues, weakened state institutions and eroded the state’s ability to drive transformation.
These failures, Makhura noted, have unfolded alongside the ANC’s steady electoral decline.
Since 2009, national support has
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