First speaker of South Africa’s democratic parliament Frene Ginwala says she hopes the ANC will “relook at how the public had reacted negatively” to the ruling party.

Ginwala, who was among a group of ANC veterans who called for President Jacob Zuma to step down, was reacting to the president's survival of an eighth motion of no confidence against him.

“We should be looking at ourselves as the ANC because the vote in parliament has gone one way, it doesn’t validate corruption. Lots of other issues that have become public now are not part of ANC’s historic values. This is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Oliver Tambo and he would be crying tonight.”

“It’s not a question of one man or one individual, the corrective responsibility lies with ANC members to say ‘what are the values we need? Why are people not seeing the benefits that were promised in the Freedom Charter?”

Another ANC veteran, Frank Chikane said the latest vote of no confidence on Zuma spoke directly to the failures of the current ANC leadership.

“The leadership of ANC should have never left the responsibility to ordinary MPs. The ANC knows it has problems, it knows it has a serious crisis”

“The leadership failed, the veterans have talked to the leadership, and they debated this matter in the NEC but failed to resolve it and left it to the parliamentarians”

Chikane said the ANC in government has failed to effectively deal with corruption in government and state owned entities.

“We can’t have serious allegations against people and nothing happens. We don’t even hear the president taking a stand saying what’s happening at Eskom has to stop and police must investigate,’’ Chikane said.