ANC has to fix issues or face poll loss
ANC MP Dr Makhosi Khoza says the ANC has to fix its internal issues before 2019‚ or face losing badly at the polls.
Khoza‚ who wrote a much shared Facebook post on the current state of leadership in the ruling party‚ told Times Media she felt she had to share her thoughts.
“I was concerned at all these theories about why people were marching‚ and to me those people were not necessarily the ones protecting monopoly capital.
“That march we ought to look at as the ANC and ask ourselves what are we doing wrong? I mean the South African flag can be flown so high from people from different walks of life and sacrifice everything to participate in this march.
“I was trying to appeal to my leadership to say ‘lead us don’t confuse us’‚” she said. “I am not at the top in the NEC‚ but I am saying we have leaders giving different messages.
“People have issues and instead of saying how we are going to deal with that, we label them‚” said Khoza.
In her lengthy post Khoza said the mass action on April 7 was a sign the ruling party was irrelevant‚ with chronic leadership incapacity.
“I once more choose to see the 7 April 2017 marches across the country as not conspiracies of white monopoly capital but genuine concerns of the majority of marchers.”
She said that she had been victimised in ANC structures for standing for the truth. “Politics of patronage has finally claimed the sanity of my ANC leadership. A triumphant story has turned tragic in my lifetime.
“The ANC is defining itself out of power when the majority of its people remain trapped in poverty‚ jobless‚ depending on state social grants.
“The South African tragedy is an African continent catastrophe. I wish my ANC leaders could see what I see. I wish my ANC leadership could feel what I feel. I wish they can understand that indecision is tantamount to giving DA‚ EFF … power on a silver platter‚” she wrote on Facebook.
Khoza said she considered herself a revolutionary. “I am not going to resign‚ all I am saying I remain in the ANC. I am saying leadership here is a challenge and what are we going to do and all I am hearing are just labels‚” said Khoza. — TMG