ANC made a mistake by putting Zuma’s interests above its own: Ntuli

ANC made a mistake by putting Zuma’s interests above its own: Ntuli

The African National Congress (ANC) will go into this year’s national and provincial elections under immense pressure from growing opposition parties, particularly President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party.

Political analyst Wayne Sussman says the MK Party has shown that it can take away votes from the Inkatha Freedom P[party (IFP) and the ANC. Recent by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal reflect impressive support, with the MK Party receiving 28% in uPhongolo and 19% in Abaqulusi.

MK PARTY COULD CUT ANC SUPPORT BY HALF IN KWAZULU NATAL

According to the latest survey by public policy think-tank Social Research Foundation (SRF), which interviewed 820 people in KwaZulu-Natal between January 31 and February 7, shows that the MK Party could cut the ANC’s electoral support in KZN in half in the 2024 national and provincial elections.

The ANC’s head of elections, Mdumiseni Ntuli, says the ANC made a mistake by supporting former president Jacob Zuma during his appearances in court and before Parliament, thereby elevating an individual’s importance above the party’s.

MBALULA SAID THE PARTY WOULD DEFEND ZUMA ON NKANDLA UPGRADE

Early this year, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula told supporters that the ANC lied to protect Zuma on upgrading his Nkandla homestead. Ntuli was the ANC KZN provincial secretary when fraud and corruption charges against Zuma were reinstated, and he was one of the leaders who supported him in court and public.

“One may not take away the good things achieved during his tenure as party leader and the ANC government. These are his achievements and the ANC’s. But many extraordinary things were done during that era which were never dealt with while JZ was still in the ANC,” says Ntuli.

DELIBERATE HOLLOWING OUT OF STATE INSTITUTIONS AND SOE’S

He says some of these were revealed through the commission of inquiries and other investigations. These include deliberately hollowing out [of] state institutions and state-owned companies in the case of SARS [South African Revenue Service] and SAA, Eskom, and others.

“Now there is evidence that Tom Moyane [appointed by Zuma as head of SARS in 2014 until President Cyril Ramaphosa terminated his contract in November 2018] and Dudu Myeni [appointed as SAA board chairperson in 2012] and others took conscious and deliberate actions to wallop and hollow these state-owned companies. These are shocking revelations,” said Ntuli.

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