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Political analyst says ANC in the Western Cape has no vibrancy
CAPE TOWN - The ANC in the Western Cape lacks the capacity to address the party's shortcomings according to political analyst, Lukhanyo Vangqa.
Vangqa says most structures in the Western Cape only exist on paper, but do not have people on the ground.
The party is holding its first elective conference in that province since 2015.
He said, “It’s not even an issue of them being that divided. It's just there’s no vibrancy in those branches."
"The spokesperson in the province Sfiso Mtshweni said some of those branches only exist on paper but they don’t have life on the ground."
"They don’t have warm bodies that are going to capacitate the ANC. So when they hold some of those meetings, they don’t have the warm bodies in order to meet the threshold to hold some of these meetings."
"So the ANC has lost vibrancy in the Western Cape, it has lost electoral support and it really lost the warm bodies that drive the organisation on the ground."
"That’s why its in the situation today that for 10 years it hasn’t been able to pull itself together and take itself to conference.”