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ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule. Image: Rosetta Msimango
POLITICS
The ANC Veterans League in the Northwest has asked Luthuli House to take action against the party’s secretary general, Ace Magashule, at the national executive committee (NEC) meeting this weekend.
In a statement Thursday, the League’s provincial secretary, Martin Sebakwane, said Magashule’s recent comments that only the ANC branches would remember him were a challenge to the party.
Magashule was speaking outside the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court two weeks ago when he appeared on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. Since then, his detractors have asked him to step aside.
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Sebakwane said the next NEC meeting should “deal with the matter appropriately.”
“We also ask the integrity committee to convene the secretary general to appear before him for discrediting the organization,” he said. “You conveniently forget that, at the 54th conference, the ANC affiliates resolved that those implicated in corruption should step aside.
“This is a tough challenge to NEC’s position of ‘standing aside’ when accused of corruption,” Sebakwane said.
He said the radical economic transformation (RET) faction in the ANC, which supported both Magashule and former President Jacob Zuma, was a threat to the integrity of the party and must be “dismembered from the ANC quickly before its cancer spreads. to the entire organization body. “
He cited as an example the out-of-court meeting in Bloemfontein, which was attended by members of the NEC, members of Parliament, members of the uMkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, mayors and councilors. Some of the protesters burned T-shirts with the face of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“They shouted platitudes and hollow unity rhetoric from the ANC that they themselves are undermining. They broke all the rules in the ANC book, including burning a T-shirt with the face of the ANC president, ”Sebakwane said.
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He said that Magashule’s other unfortunate public comment was that without the former Northwest Prime Minister Supra Mahumapelo, there would be no ANC in the province. He added that it was a declaration of war against the ANC unit in the province.
“We have to remind the secretary general that Mahumapelo, whom he admires so much, is the master of the ANC divisions in the province. The ANC as an organization, as well as the government led by the ANC, collapsed under the leadership of their hero, ”he said.
He said that under Mahumapelo the provincial government was put under administration by the national government, all the municipalities were dysfunctional and the residents of the province suffered from poor service provision.
Sebakwane said the Veterans League would mobilize the ANC and alliance members in the province against Magashule.
“Faced with this strategic challenge that requires the utmost organizational and political discipline, we urge the members of the ANC, the entire congressional movement and the northwestern people to reject, with the contempt they deserve, the statements of the ANC secretary general that seek to individualize and split the ANC into factions in the northwest. “
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