Ex-President Motlanthe: 'Good if ANC loses power'

It will be good for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) to lose the 2019 election, ex-President Kgalema Motlanthe has said.

The party has become "associated" with corruption, and it has to lose for the "penny to drop", he told the BBC.

Mr Motlanthe is a senior ANC member whose comments show growing disillusionment with the party.

The party has won each general election with more than 60% of the vote since white minority rule ended in 1994. However, it lost some of South Africa's main cities - including the commercial capital, Johannesburg - in local elections in 2014.

Voters were seen to have punished the party because of worsening corruption within its ranks. Its leader, President Jacob Zuma, has survived eight no-confidence votes in Parliament.

He has been accused by the opposition and his ANC critics of being at the centre of a corrupt network in government, an allegation he denies.

UCJ, UNILORIN.