Political analyst, Prince Mashile says the ANC will be more divided going into the local government elections.
He says the party’s brand has been damaged and people will be reluctant to vote for them.
Mashile says after the ANC’s NEC Lekgotla, President Cyril Ramaphosa made a promise that the governing party is looking at expanding and extending the Social Relief of Distress grant to cushion the poor and unemployed from the devastation caused by COVID-19.
Mashile says nothing said by Ramaphosa will happen: “Everything that President Cyril Ramaphosa said about the ANC will not happen. He said that the Lekgotla has decided to fight corruption. They will attend to it but I know that they will not end corruption. When it comes to local government elections, I know the ANC is going to get a serious wake up call because the brand of the ANC has been seriously damaged to the extent that I cannot imagine more South Africans to be encouraged to go and vote for the party that is in shambles.”
