For every promise the ANC makes in the 2024 manifesto – including creating jobs, economic growth, fighting poverty, rebuilding local government, fighting crime and corruption, improving healthcare and education, building state capacity and expanding access to water – there’ll be a legitimate question about why the party didn't perform well, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
It was always going to be challenging to draft a manifesto for a party that has been in power for 30 years, the last half of which was characterised by crippling own goals and falling public confidence.