{"id":94195,"date":"2025-12-12T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/anc-at-breaking-point"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:57:29","slug":"anc-at-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/anc-at-breaking-point","title":{"rendered":"ANC At Breaking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>South Africa\u2019s African National Congress, the liberation movement that brought Nelson Mandela to power, said it was facing a crisis over corruption, poor governance, and persistent racial inequality, and pledged to clean up its act.<\/p>\n<p>The largest party in government, the ANC, was forced into a coalition last year after losing its parliamentary majority for the first time since 1994. That defeat has prompted soul-searching.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping up a strategy conference in Johannesburg on Thursday, the party endorsed a declaration that identified corruption, factionalism, poor service delivery, and slow progress in reducing poverty among its failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe apartheid-colonial political economy remains largely intact,\u201d it admitted, with Black South Africans vastly disadvantaged compared with the small white minority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand our struggle to be at a fork in the road, and thus, we can either renew or perish,\u201d the party said, vowing to set itself performance targets across a range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC faces municipal elections in 2026 that it sees as a key test of its standing. While still revered by many for ending white minority rule, the party has lost support among younger voters fed up with a lack of progress and a culture of cronyism.<\/p>\n<p>The second-biggest party, the Democratic Alliance, favours free-market economics and wants to scrap the ANC\u2019s racial redress policies, which have also been criticised by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be an important test of the extent to which we have managed to renew the support and confidence of our people,\u201d President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC\u2019s leader, told the conference.<\/p>\n<p>He said the party was making progress in rebuilding a culture of integrity, citing greater compliance with its \u201cstep aside\u201d rule that requires members accused of wrongdoing to relinquish their posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. South Africa\u2019s African National Congress, the liberation movement that brought Nelson Mandela to power, said it was facing a crisis over corruption, poor governance, and persistent racial inequality, and pledged to clean up its act. 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