Tiptoeing around leaders like Zuma will do party more harm than good

President Jacob Zuma has to acknowledge his time is up following his endless scandals and failed court battles. He has humiliated himself enough to fall on his own sword as arrogance diminishes wisdom.

The ANC has to learn that the country comes before their pie-in-thesky unity ticket.

The current president of the organisation (Cyril Ramaphosa) is showing signs of cowardice by being lenient to Zuma.

If the ANC is not going to humiliate him, the judiciary will.

As an analyst once said, he is going to find himself alone because his cronies are beginning to turn against him, a la Robert Mugabe.

The ANC must also not play the tribal card by insinuating that without any leader from KwaZulu-Natal, it is a weaker organisation. It is of its own making that the party doesn’t have a KZN leader in the top-six structure.

If the ANC is not hard on corruption and keeps tiptoeing around leaders such as Zuma, come 2019 the party will find it harder to unite.

The ANC at the moment needs cadres of the calibre of Solly Mapaila, who has never shied away from being honest with the tripartite alliance by saying Zuma, together with those he has surrounded himself with, must go.

The sooner Zuma goes, the better for the country at large and the ANC itself. Sfanele Booi

Sunninghill