FORMER President Kgalema Motlanthe said the African National Congress (ANC) is in need of an overhaul to reinstate trust between itself and society.
In conversation with independent policy analysis and advocacy think tank Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), he raised concerns about the way the governing party had been going about its business and policy in the last decade, particularly at a disadvantage to small businesses and the economy at large.
When asked about the deterioration of the ANC in the last decade and widescale corruption, the former President said the leadership of the party is accepting that unless they do something about the current trajectory, they will no doubt lose the elections and eventually become irrelevant in South African politics.
He added that he could notice the ANC becoming corrupted financially and ethically during his term as secretary general for the party around 2007, and said that, perhaps the ANC was not actually
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