Mbalula calls for focus while announcing ANC Gauteng task team

By Simon Nare

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has admitted the party is facing an existential crisis and needs to focus on ensuring it makes up lost ground ahead of the local government polls.

Addressing journalists at the unveiling of the reconfigured ANC Gauteng task team, Mbalula warned that members should not be pre-occupied with the succession battle because it would be settled at the national conference.

He said they should refrain from attacking the leadership or the movement on social media, but rather defend it. He went further to say there was a comrade who took to social media in the dead of the night to attack the leadership but would not divulge details.

“Our revolution is facing an existential crisis. The question who leads the ANC in the future will come and will be settled. It’s an easy thing. At the present moment we are facing a mountain. A