POLICY CONFERENCE
NATASHA MARRIAN: How far the once-mighty ANC has fallen
President Jacob Zuma’s modus operandi has been to destroy what he cannot control. From the country’s security apparatus, to the ANC Youth League, the South African Communist Party and Cosatu, Zuma has presided over and precipitated their destruction or emasculation. Most recently, shifting into his cross hairs and those of his coterie of rent-seeking enablers, the Gupta family and their associates, were SA’s financial institutions. The ANC is left barely standing in the wake of his decade-long control. Will it be next to go? All indications are the party is too far gone to be saved. The policy conference that starts this weekend is being billed by the party itself as "critical to the life of the ANC". Secretary-general Gwede Mantashe is set to deliver a devastating "diagnostic report" on the problems facing the party, central to which is its centre shifting from Luthuli House to Saxonwold. But his report will once again provide a diagnosis, not a cure. Even if a cure is found, there...
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