Following announcement by African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng to charge him for bringing the party into disrepute, ANC Ekurhuleni regional Chairperson Mzwandile Masina says he is not commenting on the matter.
“No, no comment,” Masina told Inside Politics when approached for comment on Friday morning.
ANC Gauteng provincial secretary Thembinkosi TK Nciza said that the party will charge Masina for ignoring an instruction to withdraw a motion of no confidence against Tania Campbell in October.
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“The PEC has taken a firm decision that action must be taken against the Chairperson of the ANC in Ekurhuleni for bringing the party into disrepute- commit mandated to deal with the matter urgently. Why must we want other parties to vote for us and we can’t vote for them and we call it revolutionary?
“The reality is that neo-liberal parties are forming themselves to take the ANC out of power. What is our answer to that as the ANC? Well thought strategy by the ANC in the province, we have an opportunity and still have an opportunity to create a model for coalitions and make them work. We are not going to be derailed by anybody. We are not going to allow it,” Nciza said.
ANC Ekurhuleni Spokesperson Lesiba Mpya told Inside Politics that the region will expect a visit by the Provincial Secretary Nciza on Tuesday.
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“We are calling for cool heads, obviously it is not a good thing for the chairperson of the region to get charged but we are hoping that we will engage on the matter and find each other as the ANC. We respect the principle of democratic centralism,” Mpya said.
ANC caucus in the City of Ekurhuleni legislature, with assistance of other parties in the legislature successfully placed a motion of no confidence against the DA mayor Campbell. But the provincial party executive committees said that was a move against their decision.
Political Analyst Professor Susan Booysen said Masina has always been seen during the former President Jacob Zuma years on the opposite side of the provincial leadership but said it’s interesting to see the fight between different ANC structures transferred to coalition politics.
“It is early days in the battle, it will be fascinating to see to what extent the deliberation between the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) come to survive the coalition politics sittings. These are testing grounds, we know the current ANC leadership (provincial and regional) has links with the EFF- they have been talking and we don’t know if anybody feels double crossed,” said Political Analyst Professor Susan Booysen.
Booysen said the EFF sees better prospects of cooperating with the ANC at provincial level.
The EFF strategy is to take power through a system of infusing itself into the bigger party even if it doesn’t have a majority of votes, in this case the ANC, added Booysen.
-Inside Politics
