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A delegate stands near a banner during the 55th National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa December 18, 2022.
Some political analysts are questioning why the ANC will start attaching real consequences for underperforming councillors at this point when the party has failed to stop corruption and scandals involving its leaders since the dawn of democracy.
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has unveiled the Service Delivery Action Plan to thousands of ANC councillors at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg.
The plan seeks to revitalise local government that is facing serious service delivery failures.
Earlier Ramaphosa said the party would not protect individuals implicated in corrupt activity.
[WATCH] Political analyst Thobani Zikalala says the ANC has been a politically contested terrain, where tools like anti-corruption, maladministration, and ill-discipline have been used as weapons against political opponents instead of ensuring they serve the people of SA. pic.twitter.com/MJJL0pNguc
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Political Analyst Thobani Zikalala says the ANC has to be decisive when dealing with corrupt party leaders.
“How the ANC has behaved and portrayed itself as a governing party post 94 that has made people in each election to gradually lose faith in the ANC and people can see that the ANC doesn’t fundamentally act against corruption and maladministration and many other ills that it faces. If they start now acting against councilors it should be a good thing but the question is for the past 20 years, the ANC has been saying they fight corruption and they going to deal with their leaders and members accused and associated with corruption and they have not done so. The ANC needs to come out an act against those who are corrupt.”
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