Phosa: ‘I want people to know I am available’

Cape Town's ward 53 was only the first of many branches Dr Mathews Phosa expects will support him for president in the ANC leadership battle.

May 2, 2017

Mireille de Villiers 1 minute read

Dr Mathews Phosa wants people to know that I am available.

MBOMBELA – Dr Mathews Phosa announced on Saturday that he would accept the nomination to become ANC president in December. Nominations officially open in June.

“I want people to know that I am available,” he told Lowvelder on Sunday.

See: Mathews Phosa for president?

https://www.citizen.co.za/lowvelder/371421/party-pushes-for-untainted-phosa-to-be-the-president/

He said the country needed a clean leader, free of scandals and corruption. He said announcements from more branches could be expected, but he would not divulge details.

“I have support all over the country. We are busy. We are working very hard”.

He has been highly critical of the ruling party’s leadership and has called on Zuma to resign a number of times.

Watch: ‘Enough I say, enough!’ – Phosa

https://www.citizen.co.za/lowvelder/375801/enough-say-enough-phosa/

He did so again during his speech at Freedom Day celebrations in Langa on Saturday. He told supporters there was little to celebrate.

“The past years and months have been increasingly depressing for me personally as I have witnessed a once-proud, focused and visionary party and movement disintegrate into utterly shameful and embarrassing shambles.

“Where previously I had remained silent out of loyalty to my beloved ANC, I now have to acknowledge that this is not the ANC that I know and to which I, and thousands of others, have dedicated our lives. And so I must, and I will, continue to speak out. Silence is connivance.

“Failure to act now will leave us drifting further down the slope to nowhere, and before long the forces of history will simply wash us away. I cannot believe the comrades of our movement would ever allow that to happen,” he concluded.