By Thapelo Molefe
The ANC has made it clear that it wants to take full control of the City of Tshwane, declaring that South Africa’s capital city must not be governed by any other political party.
ANC Gauteng provincial co-convener Panyaza Lesufi made the declaration while addressing the 12th ANC Greater Tshwane Regional Conference, currently underway under the theme “Renew, Rebuild and Unite towards the consolidation of people’s power”.
Lesufi told delegates that the ANC was “tired of sharing leadership” in Tshwane through coalition arrangements and wanted to govern the metro alone in order to focus on service delivery.
“We are tired of sharing leadership with ActionSA, the EFF and other parties. We want to take over Tshwane alone as the African National Congress and not spend time consulting, but spend time servicing our people,” Lesufi said.
He said that coalition and unity governments had weakened the state’s ability to
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