Johnathan Paoli
ANC national task team on coalitions member David Makhura has said that the ruling party is expecting to win this year’s national and provincial election with an outright majority.
The former Gauteng Premier was speaking at the Mbombela stadium in Mpumalanga on Saturday, ahead of the ANC’s anticipated January 8th Statement next weekend.
Makhura said the party was working with everything they had to win the confidence of the South African people in order to secure an overwhelming mandate.
“This National Executive Committee is very clear: we are not asking the people to consider who we must work with…we are looking for a full and clear mandate from the people of South Africa,” Makhura said.
The former premier said coalitions in the context of the country would not effectively ensure the production of greater progress, which the people desperately needed.
The National Task Team on Coalitions said that it conducted an assessment on municipalities in which the party has entered into coalition governments with other political parties and found that the partnerships in many of these municipalities were not serving the purpose of ensuring that service is delivered to the communities.
Makhura said that the coalition framework focused on municipalities, but was not feasible when it came to provincial and national governments.
The meeting in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, focused on a number of issues, ranging from good governance and the fight against corruption within all spheres of government, to noting the allegations leveled against Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
ANC’s Febe Potgieter-Gqubule said the party’s NEC processes dictated that the Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula should summon Nzimande to the integrity commission.
In addition, speaking to the media on Friday, Secretary-general Mbalula said that the national executive committee still had to decide on former president Jacob Zuma’s fate and status as a member.
Mbalula said that the governing party had no personal agenda against Zuma and was not threatened by his endorsement of the newly formed Umkhonto weSizwe party (MK).
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