ANC RANK AND FILE AND THE LURE OF PUBLIC OFFICE

All is not well under the ANC tent. There is a struggle by those wanting their preferred candidates to secure a place on the list of ANC candidates for the coming local elections. The need for inclusion on the list is paramount towards a winning jackpot for a life of power, prestige and vast wealth. Rank and file ANC members have finally come to the realization that public office is not reserved solely for the party's political elite and their camp followers. They believe they too are entitled to a slice of the political pie, be it wealth, power, patronage and corruption that public office so readily provides the ruling party. The days of a compliant ANC rank and file collective appears to be at an end. From hereon the politics of greed will intensify, but not indefinitely, because a party built on greed surely cannot endure.