WITH less than eight weeks before the local government elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for unity within the ANC, which has been plagued by factional battles and political infighting in recent months.
The arrest of former president Jacob Zuma and the suspension of ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule have deepened the divisions within the ruling ANC, with some calling for an early conference to oust Ramaphosa as president.
Apparently the motivation for the removal of Ramaphosa will be that he has failed to implement the party’s 2017 national conference resolutions.
Several ANC members are already demanding that the top leadership account for the financial crisis after the party’s failure to submit some of its candidate lists for the local government elections.
On Sunday, ANC national chair Gwede Mantashe’s calls for unity received a hostile reception from members of the disbanded Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) after they disrupted his
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