Unfulfilled Promises Caused The Ancs Decline: Analyst

The ANC, Africas oldest liberation movement, is celebrating 113 years of existence this coming weekend. This years January 8 Statement rally will be held at Nelson Mandela Park at Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Saturday.

The ANC has been the governing party since the first democratic elections in 1994, marking the countrys political liberation from apartheid. However, in last years general elections, it failed to win an outright majority in Parliament, giving rise to the formation of a Government of National Unity GNU.

Political analyst and historian, Doctor Zakhele Shamase of the University of Zululand, believes unfulfilled promises and the non-implementation of congress resolutions caused the partys decline.

He says factionalism and breakaway parties also took their toll.

"What has led to the decline of the ANC is the corruption and failure to deliver. Budget is there but budget is not used maximally to the benefit of the services that they are meant for and also nepotism, these are things that have annoyed the people. The last straw is that of factionalism, that developed within the ANC itself. It widened beyond them. The breakaway parties in the ANC started with UDM, then came COPE, ATM, uMkhonto weSizwe, its because of factionalism that is there in the ruling party and they have been arrogantly not attending to that using the majority support they have on the ground to ignore whatever happens," explains Shamase.