ANC’s ‘sleeping on the job’ underscores party’s demise

The phrase “desperate times call for desperate measures” aptly describes the ANC’s failed gambit in which it asked the Electoral Court to declare that “the registration of uMkhonto weSizwe (MKP) as a political party to be ultra vires, unlawful and invalid”.

Further, the ANC “acknowledges that it failed to bring the application within the prescribed time. It is for that reason that it seeks condonation for its delay in bringing the application”.

In simple terms, the ANC wants the Electoral Court to condone the fact that it was sleeping on the job.

The Electoral Court did not fall for the ANC’s pack of lies. It concluded that the “ANC’s explanation is irrational because it