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Motlanthe admits ANC "failures" of governance
He says political power led to the organisation forgetting its objectives.
JOHANNESBURG - Former President Kgalema Motlanthe has again admitted that the ANC has failed the people.
He says political power led to the organisation forgetting its objectives.
Motlanthe was speaking to my colleagues earlier today, ahead of the ANC's national conference in December.
He said, "well we failed right at the beginning in the sense that people form organisations for a purpose."
"Many of South Africans placed their faith and everything in the ANC."
"The ANC for many years said it's waging struggle on behalf of the people."
"Come 1994 when that is achieved, as ANC, myself included was to pause and say, what is their role in taking the struggle forward? Instead we concerned ourselves reservation and carried on as though in fact we were meant to and structured even in issues of governance."