Sydney Majoko The ANC’s Taliban faction – Zuma’s supporters – have not stopped to ask themselves: where is the voter in all of this? Supporters of President Jacob Zuma and loyalists of the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) sing “Wenzeni uZuma”. (Photo by Rajesh JANTILAL / AFP) The ruling ANC has often been compared to an…
The ANC’s Taliban faction – Zuma’s supporters – have not stopped to ask themselves: where is the voter in all of this?
Supporters of President Jacob Zuma and loyalists of the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) sing “Wenzeni uZuma”.
The ruling ANC has often been compared to an elephant by people, including former president Jacob Zuma. He once warned former party members who were standing in the 2016 local government elections against the ANC that “you are fighting against an elephant.
You won’t even know where to begin (to strike it) … it will hit you with its trunk before you even make your move”. Former Cosatu secretary-general Bheki Ntshalintshali took the analogy further but this time as a warning to the ANC: “Elephants move slowly… but when they move things are corrected… they sometimes need to move swiftly.”…
