#Letter: A lack of quality leadership in regional branches

Groutville resident Ntokozo Mcineka ka Makamu writes:

The ANC government has rendered education useless a long time ago.

If you don’t believe this, look at the calibre of leaders at branch level and in many wards.

My late uncle used to say politics is not for everyone. It is a science and if you want to enter that space you need a good education.

Branches are falling apart because the ruling party fails to address crucial issues. Not everyone can lead, especially the illiterate people who can’t even read or understand policies and documents.

This party invented a term called “clever blacks” to describe its critics inside and outside the party.

It has become normal to find people with no matric fighting to be included in BECs. You still hear slogans such as “power is with branches”, but these days ignorance rules at that level.

Some officials can’t even handle a simple five-minutes debate without hurling insults at each other. Some use tricks and street strategies to outsmart their opponents in branch leadership battles. It’s a mess.

These people end up being parachuted to positions of leadership as councillors and take decisions for communities. That’s why you won’t even find libraries in our communities.

It is said that during the unrest in South Africa not a single bookshop was looted. Not that one condones looting, but it said a lot about the illiterate culture in our society. A culture of hating books has been instilled.

The Luthulis and Mandelas armed themselves with education. I wonder what they would say about the poor branch leaders of today.

Educated leaders are suffocated out of ANC politics everywhere to make it a free-for-all organisation where guns rule instead of political wisdom.

A very sad state of affairs.

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