Naledi Pandor: ANC has lost its glory and people look at it with 'disdain, horror and shame'

ANC veteran and former International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has said the party has lost its glory and that South Africans now look at the once-revered liberation movement with “disdain, horror and shame”.

- SIMON MAJADIBODU

Pandor made the remarks while delivering a lecture during the centenary celebration of former ANC Women's League president Gertrude Shope on Sunday.

Shope, who died in May this year was former Member of Parliament and veteran activist. She would have turned 100 this month.

“Ma’ Shope would have been dismayed at our faltering progress,” Pandor said.

“She was a keen observer of our country’s development over the past 30 years of democracy, and noted several advances which I sometimes had the opportunity to discuss with her - advances in education, science, innovation and technology, in growing our international trade, and in improving access to basic social services.”

However, Pandor said Shope would also have been deeply troubled by widespread corruption and the erosion of values among leaders.