Mkhize: ANC leaders must accept failures and pull up their socks
ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize says the leaders of the governing party must accept their failures.
Mkhize was delivering the Oliver Tambo memorial lecture at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall on Saturday.
The former health minister lamented how the Covid-19 pandemic unmasked the depth of the country's social crisis.
He says communities are still struggling with issues such as unemployment, inequality, poverty and access to health care.
"Inequality is the worst in the world", Mkhize said.
"Poverty has once again returned to decimate the living of those whose lives have improved at the end of apartheid.
"Corruption, crime, violence, gender-based violence and femicide have reached epidemic proportions."
Mkhize says the ANC's leadership needs to pull up its socks and re-position the movement as a powerful and accountable force.
"ANC leaders must apologise and commit to do things differently to restore the hope of our people in the party.
"We need to reignite our people's belief in a better life for all South Africans."
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