By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Former president Jacob Zuma says the ANC has failed to make any sense since its elective conference in Nasrec in 2017.
Zuma suffered a blow during that conference when his preferred party presidential successor Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma lost the vote to Cyril Ramaphosa.
He addressed supporters from his Nkandla homestead, which was also streamed live on Twitter.
Zuma said the ANC has made decisions that does not benefit black people.
He accused white people of sowing division within the black community and elevating their spies to positions of power in the ANC.
“We have elected people and sent them to Parliament to go and represent us. If you listen to Parliament seriously, is there any debate that talks about us there? How we the poor, the majority must be helped. Nothing.”
“We have been deviated from what we need to do and unfortunately this is what I was saying earlier that unfortunately we all just sit. Instead, we are being made to fight among ourselves and there are people who are brought to perpetuate that so that there is no unity,” Zuma said.
Zuma said during the last election, while campaigning, he consulted with pastors on unity.
“Black unity is critical for our future and the future of this country. But people don’t listen and people are going to say ‘that man is mad, that man is corrupt.”
Despite his criticism of the party he once led as president, Zuma said he will remain in the ANC and fight for the realisation of its policies.