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ANC needs long term solution to renew the movement: Analyst

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Political analyst Dr Luvuyo Dondolo says the African National Congress (ANC) needs a long term solution if it is to renew the movement.

He says the ANC may regain a bit of trust following current interventions but going forward, they will have to put in more work.

This after the ANC in the Eastern Cape announced tapping into the wisdom of those who led before by involving the former president Thabo Mbeki in a three-day Provincial Executive Committee meeting currently under way in East London.

Dondolo says this is a short term strategy.

“The involvement of former leaders such as Thabo Mbeki, leaders who are perceived to have the moral compass as a way of this renewal of the ANC is short term. It is the strategy that the ANC is using to win the hearts of the voters, however the ANC needs a permanent and long term solution,” says Dondolo.

ANC Northern Cape chairperson Zamani Saul says the party needs to restore its damaged image:

He says with this short term solution, the ANC might win the elections in some of the municipalities but there are certain metros where they will be strongly contested by other political organisations.

Mbeki is set to contribute to how to reassert the ANC as a movement rooted among the people.

ANC PEC Spokesperson, Loyiso Magqashela, says the meeting will also draw on the legacy of the founders of the party for the benefit of the current generation.

“To strengthen the issue of the organisational renewal and unity we have then to tap from the wisdom of those who led before so that at least our renewal trajectory gets to be guided and guided properly. You would have nowadays understand how the ANC is pressured from left right and centre now the renewal project then becomes key and also we want to assert the authority and the leadership of the ANC amongst the society,” says Magqashela.

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