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The ANC has condemned what it calls “faceless” attacks on Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula and his advisers by anonymous employees within the department.
The party expressed its confidence in Mbalula’s leadership to address the challenges in the department and said it had noted the great strides it had made in prioritizing challenges in the public transportation sector.
ANC spokesman Pule Mabe said the party observed with concern a letter written by “faceless individuals” who claimed to be comrades, members and supporters of the ANC in the department of transportation and its entities, making unsubstantiated accusations and attacking the integrity of Mbalula.
“The ANC frowns upon public servants who meddle in party politics in the workplace under the mistaken belief that they can invoke the ANC’s name and undermine the authority of elected leaders,” Mabe said in a communicated on Monday.
“They have no qualms about doing everything possible to question the president’s prerogative to appoint ministers and vice ministers.”
He said the ANC distanced itself from those concerned and rejected claims that they acted as companions, members and supporters of the ANC.
Mabe said the ANC’s disciplined cadres understood that there were internal channels for raising issues and did not use the facade of being cadres, members and supporters to promote anarchy.
He said ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa had been emphatic in communicating the views of the ANC leadership collective that public officials should refrain from engaging in party political affairs in the performance of their duties.
“Therefore, we call on all public servants to respect this precautionary measure and carry out their mandate diligently, without fear or favor,” said Mabe.
Last month, in a letter to Ramaphosa, and signed by “personnel from the national department of transportation and all its state entities,” the authors suggested that Ramaphosa made a mistake in naming “friends” Mbalula and CEO Alec Moemi. for the Department.
“We must affirm from the beginning that despite all the issues we would mention about their actions and behaviors, the central question still remains: why did Comrade President choose to deploy Comrade Fikile in a department as important and strategic as ours, the national department of transportation? What criteria did Comrade President use? He said.
“Didn’t the president foresee that corruption, nepotism, cronyism [and] Was kleptocracy going to be the order of the day?
The authors also copied National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise, Assembly Transportation Committee Chair Mosebenzi Zwane, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Police Minister Bheki Cele, Auditor General Kimi Makwetu, and David Lewis from Corruption Watch .
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