Former president Jacob Zuma has reportedly urged ANC structures to demand answers from the ruling party’s leadership on ‘what went wrong’ in last week’s elections.
For the first time since 1994, the ruling party failed in last week’s local government elections to gain a national majority.
According to the Sunday Times, Zuma attributed the ANC’s poor election showing to the failure of Ramaphosa and other leaders to implement party resolutions that would have seen the ANC alleviate many social issues.
Zuma was speaking at the funeral service on Friday of the brother of his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, in Bulwer, KwaZulu-Natal.
He was quoted as saying: ‘The only resolution they were keen on implementing is the step aside. Other resolutions which are critical in changing the lives of the people and transforming the county are being neglected, and I will not keep quiet when things go wrong in the ANC.’
The report said Zuma called on the membership to ‘react to this [the electoral setback]’, adding that ‘in our structures let us stand up — let us ask a questions from the leadership, they must come explain what went wrong’.