Arrogance blamed for ANC’s performance at the polls

By Simon Nare

KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial task team convenor Jeff Radebe has acknowledged that the party’s massive decline in the national and provincial elections was due to arrogance and many mistakes committed by the party in the province.

Radebe was speaking to journalists in Durban after the task team held its first meeting to map a way forward following the reshuffling of the elected provincial leadership. This was after the province’s poor performance at the polls.

Radebe did not go into much detail about the mistakes committed by the party, but emphasised that the task team would be cracking down on officials deployed in the provincial government of national unity and municipalities to make sure that the masses received service delivery 

“Seventeen percent is a disaster. It reflects that the arrogance of the ANC has cost us the vote. I and my colleagues we come with a fresh perspective that