Sanity needs to prevail among the warring factions of the African National Congress if they intend continuing being the majority ruling party in the province.
Recalling the recent utterance by provincial secretary, Lucky Ndunisa in reference to announcing the temporary suspension of fellow PEC member, Peter Nyoni last Tuesday at a press conference, “How can the ANC march against itself?”
Methinks there is a bigger problem than what is being demonstrated to the public, citing lack of democratic processes within the provincial ANC itself.
The Save Mpumalanga ANC Campaign has stated that they frantically attempted to request to be heard by the provincial leadership, all in vain, hence now they ended up in the streets in their fight to be heard.
The worst scenario last Friday was when they reached the provincial offices, no one came out to receive their memorandum. Methinks the memorandum should have been received with no comments, only with acknowledgement of receipt.
That would have opened doors for democratic processes to get underway.
Continued ignoring of this group won’t augur well for the ANC as a whole, because as it stands, it spells out that the ruling party is divided and it will affect it in the forthcoming local government elections.
Losing one vote is one too many, they need to consolidate their differences in their private space where everything else went wrong and led to such confrontations.
If the talk now is about total removal of the current leadership, let all of them go to conference and democratically contest that. If, as has been purported, that delegates for the next elective conference are dubious ones, why not everyone go back to branches and contest from there?
Currently, the politics of the ANC is operated from an individualistic point of view from both sides. The architects of such a scenario is no one but themselves.
At the time it all began, they never realised that they were creating a creature that would one day turn around and bite them.
