Lindiwe Sisulu blames Zuma for ANC’s negative public image

President Jacob Zuma is to blame for the negative sentiment against the African National Congress in the country.

That is according to ANC presidential hopeful and Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, who has admitted the governing party is in “an awkward space”.

“We are in an awkward space. The public mood seems to have been generated that the president should leave,” Sisulu said in an interview with Sowetan, citing the controversial leaked Gupta emails and assault charges against deputy minister of higher education Mduduzi Manana.

“We have seen this in protests. I don’t know why our system is taking time to deal with the matter,” she added, saying the ANC should sort out its challenges before the 2019 general elections.

Sisulu’s comments follow the defeated eighth motion of no confidence in the parliament in Zuma last week, conducted through a secret ballot, which saw him narrowly surviving being removed from office after an estimated 30 to 40 ANC MPs defied the party’s directive to reject the motion tabled by the DA.

She said her campaign to succeed Zuma as ANC president in December would be about restoring the character, trust and credibility of Africa’s oldest liberation movement.

“I am not fighting against anyone. We can give the hope that people had in the ANC,” Sisulu said.

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