NATASHA MARRIAN: ANC stampedes towards eye of the electoral needle
THERE is a stampede for the top spot in the ANC. The future of the party, and by extension the trajectory of the country, will undoubtedly rest on the leadership choices it makes at its 54th national conference in 2017. Globally, leadership is a question vexing nations, with some in the US contemplating the installation of ultraright Republican nominee Donald Trump in the White House. For SA, the stakes have never been higher, and, in reality, never more dismal. ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday that the party was discussing leadership "in principle", using its 2001 treatise Through the Eye of a Needle? as a basis for selecting a new party leader. There must be an effort this time around, he said, to explain the "track record" of the candidate and expound on why he or she was "dependable". But we have been here before. At the party’s national conference in Polokwane nearly a decade ago, the resolution on elections and leadership entrenched Through the Eye of a Need...
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