South African elder statesman and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has said he would no longer vote for the ruling ANC.
“I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,” he wrote in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian newspaper.
Inequality, violence and corruption are among the reasons costing the ANC his support, he added.
Archbishop Tutu, 81, was a strong supporter of the ANC’s struggle against white minority rule.
Former African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black leader after all-race elections in 1994.
“The ANC was very good at leading us in the struggle to be free from oppression,” Archbishop Tutu wrote.
“But it doesn’t seem to me now that a freedom-fighting unit can easily make the transition to becoming a political party,” he continued.
Source: The Nation
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