Electoral trends show that the ANC’s support is no longer guaranteed among millions of South Africans who, a decade ago, would not even consider casting a vote for any party other than the liberation movement.
The political landscape is shifting under the feet of the governing party, with the opposition led by younger, dynamic leaders — not just at the top, but on its parliamentary benches, too.
Perceptions that the party was soft on corruption and internal fractures were blamed for the ANC’s drop in support. None of these were implemented or spoken of again, as the party quickly slipped into its next power struggle, which was fought at its national conference at Nasrec a year later. What is clear is that those 4 000 delegates — who spewed rhetoric about the need for renewal and at the same time elected a man who was found by the Constitutional Court to have stolen internal party elections — are also massively out of step with the electorate.
It has the room to re-examine its identity as a liberation movement as opposed to a political party contesting power, and to grapple with modernisation versus stagnation.
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