South Africa: ANC Veteran of 60 Years 'Painfully' Severs Ties With Ruling Party, Tenders Resignation

[Daily Maverick] Mavuso Msimang, deputy president of the African National Congress Veterans' League (ANCVL), has resigned from the party after more than 60 years. Msimang said in his devastating three-page resignation letter, the transcript published in full below, that 'For several years now, the ANC has been wracked by endemic corruption, with devastating consequences on the governance of the country and the lives of poor people, of whom there continue to be so many.'