If the ANC becomes a rural party, it will be the end of the ANC, warns one of the party's leaders,Thabang Makwetla.
He emphasised that the phenomenon affected communities “badly” across all provinces including the country's financial centre Gauteng — where the ANC governs no metros.
“The stance of the movement towards the development that our support in urban centres is weakening — what we are raising is that the high levels of joblessness have affected more of SA’s traditional industrial working class, which are your urban centres, what were formerly known as townships. “That has pushed a significant part of our country out of the economy and it is a ticking time bomb. And for as long as it continues there is no way the ANC will find it easy to win back the metros,” he added.
Makwetla added that for the ANC to get back on track, its membership needed to be more diverse, with more members from the middle class which seemed to have abandoned the party, so that it could benefit from a variety of ideas and guidance.
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