The acting chairperson of the Sanco Mogale City Zonal Task Team, Raliphi George Master Push Xolelizwe’s day job involves supporting communities in receiving service delivery. Service delivery to our communities must be at the core of our activities.
But at night, he is one of the chief lobbyists for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC presidential campaign.
Every Wednesday, Master Push drives from Mogale City to places such as Toekomsrus in Randfontein, Sedibeng in the Vaal, Khutsong in Merafong and Sokhulumi in Pretoria, where he shares the stage with senior campaign leaders and speaks to ANC members about why Ramaphosa’s election at the national conference in December is a make or break for the governing party.
Sometimes the campaign meetings are on the West Rand, so he does the spadework during the week.
In summing up the message of the #CR17 campaign, Master Push said, “We need to defeat the quadruple ills that will collapse the ANC – greed, crass materialism, conspicuous consumption and ostentation. So, we are reclaiming the ANC’s core values.”
Master Push added that Ramaphosa is the best person to lead the quest to reclaim the ANC’s values.
The chairperson of the Zone wants government to work for the people, not for the parasitic patronage network of the Guptas. He also wants to put a stop to the high level of corruption entrenched in municipality and in government.
Master Push warns that if the ANC takes the wrong path in December, it will die a natural death like others.
When Master Push was asked about radical economic transformation, his short response was, “We want radical economic transformation led by thought leaders, and not body leaders, who come with many people and think they are leading.”
He says Sanco acknowledges that Ramaphosa’s camp concedes that one of the success of the #NDZ17 campaign has been the introduction of the debate on “white monopoly capital” in the ANC. So powerful has the debate become that ANC members often request the Ramaphosa camp to explain its position on the subject.
“We are being asked if there is anything called white monopoly capital. Of course there is, but there is also monopoly capital. And in the context of South Africa, because of colonialism of a special type, the oppressor and the oppressed lived together. But you cannot say that other African countries’ monopoly capital is white, because it may be black,” he said.
