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Gwede Mantashe.
Felix Dlangamandla, Netwerk24
- ANC President Gwede Mantashe has rejected any suggestion that the ANC leadership be dissolved.
- Mantashe was commenting on a meeting with a group calling itself ANC Cadres.
- The group is led by retired defense intelligence chief Maomela “Mojo” Motau.
The dissolution of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) is out of the question.
ANC national president Gwede Mantashe said the same thing during an impromptu briefing for the media on Tuesday night.
The ANC held the briefing after the media reported that the party’s top brass discussed a document from ANC cadres suggesting a temporary dissolution of the NEC to resolve the party’s crisis.
On Tuesday, News24 reported that the 31-page document titled “ANC Restructuring Strategy 2025” suggested that a national task force (NTT) replace the NEC to rebuild the organization.
This after a group calling itself ANC Cadres held a summit to discuss the crisis facing the organization.
Their leader, retired General Maomela “Mojo” Motau, told News24 that the main players currently in talks with the cadres include Mantashe, Secretary General Ace Magashule and Assistant Secretary General Jessie Duarte.
“We met with the group, although it has no place in the ANC structures,” Mantashe told reporters during the virtual briefing. He said party leaders had agreed to treat the discussion as confidential until a way forward was agreed.
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Mantashe said party leaders had no problem with the document’s comprehensive analysis related to the balance of forces at the global and national level, which were superficial in nature.
However, the retired generals’ analysis of the ANC was not based on any scientific analysis, but on the opinions and points of view of individuals.
“We observed some issues that were a deviation in the document itself. No [reference] to ANC conference, ANC resolution and decisions made by ANC structures from time to time. Analyze the ANC on the basis of media reports from time to time, “he said.
The document details some of the crises facing the ruling party, including a crisis of legitimacy, credibility, political coherence, morality and leadership.
He attacked the party’s leaders for lack of political awareness and “agility of the political mind.”
“It is a leadership that is immobilized and unable to lead our revolutionary movement to achieve its strategic objective. We are in a state of paralysis. All is lost, including the necessary agility and political acumen,” it read.
The document further affirmed that the fundamental cause of the crisis was the lack of political commitment to the struggle, which made the ANC its worst enemy.
While Mantashe called the leak of the document malicious and an attempt to confuse communities, it said the ANC would continue to involve the group.
“We do not go to [be] distracted by the commitment to publish the document, which can only be intended to cause confusion in society. ”
Responding to the call of an NTT, Mantashe said that the NEC would not succumb to any attempt to change the regime and replace it.
“The biggest debate was on the ANC analysis and many of the questions have not been answered and resolved. That is why we will bring them together next time. We are engaging them like any other group in the ANC that raises questions,” he said . he said, adding that the NEC was the supreme body of the ANC between conferences.
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