Corruption and incompetence have turned the ANC into a Bantustan party

The local elections have confirmed the decline of the party in urban areas, leaving it with strongholds only among the rural poor

07 November 2021 - 00:01

The ANC — Africa’s oldest and one of its greatest liberation movements, which inspired generations at home and abroad — has become, because of endemic corruption, incompetence and indifference, a rural and Bantustan party...

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