ANC NEC Will Not Disband, Says Mantashe In The wake of Motau Document Leak

JOHANNESBURG – The African National Congress (ANC) said its national executive committee (NEC) would not be dissolved.

The party’s national chairman, Gwede Manatashe, has moved to clarify the ANC’s position on retired General Mojo Motau and his ANC Cadre Summit.

Motau and other retired military officials, under the umbrella of ANC Cadres, drafted a 135-page document providing an analysis on the state of the party.

They said the ANC was captured by neoliberal and neo-colonial forces, claiming that it had lost its stance of being a liberation movement and had done little to change the fortunes of South Africans.

Manatashe said the ANC has kept silent in an attempt to respect the confidentiality of the talks, but with the document leaking to the public, it needed to act.

Mantashe described the meeting with Mojo and other ANC cadres as cordial.

He said the current party leadership had no problem with the group’s global and national analysis, but that it was the idea of ​​the executive dissolving for a task force that they rejected.

“The NEC of the ANC is the supreme body of the ANC between conferences and therefore that question is not subject to discussion.”

Manatashe also defended the ANC’s lengthy silence on the matter, saying the party felt that the initial response from the head of the South African National Defense Force, General Solly Shoke, warned members of the force not to get involved in matters. politicians, it was enough.

But the party was forced to act because of the leak.

“But when people get ahead of that, we start to suspect that it is a prank at its best and that it is intended to agitate and anger society and we need to clarify our position,” Mantashe said.

Manatshe, while warning the public not to take the document seriously, said the ANC would meet with the group again next week.

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