{"id":967615,"date":"2024-05-31T06:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967615"},"modified":"2024-05-31T06:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:24:01","slug":"tribalism-is-a-backward-form-of-politics-mantashe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/tribalism-is-a-backward-form-of-politics-mantashe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribalism is a backward form of politics: Mantashe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress (ANC) national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe says the uMkhonto weSizwe\u00a0Party\u2019s (MK) electoral impact in KwaZulu-Natal is a reflection of tribalism.<\/p>\n<p>The former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s MK party has made significant inroads in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at the IEC results operation centre in Midrand yesterday, Mantashe said tribalism is a backward form of politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe campaigned everywhere, I have been to 9 provinces myself now if the impact is in KZN it represents something different, it reflects Zulu tribalism and I don\u2019t think we should actually lock ourselves into Zulu tribalism. Tribalism is a backward form of politics within a timeframe it disappears. So if that is the factor \u201d am not worried about it,\u201d said Mantashe.<\/p>\n<p>Political Analyst, Sethulego Matebesi, has criticised the ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe for attributing the MK party\u2019s election gains in Kwa-Zulu Natal to tribalism.<\/p>\n<p>Mantashe was reacting to the MK party\u2019s lead in the province yesterday at the IEC results operation centre in Midrand. Matebesi says Mantashe\u2019s comments represents what the ruling party has become.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the heart of democracy its the will of the people, now do you want to say all along the ANC won elections based on the support that it got from KZN. Now suddenly it is all about tribalism, that for me is really unacceptable for a leader of that caliber to come out and make such pronouncements \u2013 its an insult on the integrity of the citizens of this country and also the voters of KZN,\u201d says Matebesi.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">2024 Elections | MK party continues strong showing<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9uscS3EOZ3Y?si=Bi0PazBnuouO7x_R\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes The African National Congress (ANC) national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe says the uMkhonto weSizwe\u00a0Party\u2019s (MK) electoral impact in KwaZulu-Natal is a reflection of tribalism. The former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s MK party has made significant inroads in the province. Speaking to the media at the IEC results operation centre in Midrand yesterday, Mantashe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2894,1591,1909,246,1355,2917],"class_list":["post-967615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-election-results","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-gwede-mantashe","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe-partys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}