Mufamadi takes a swipe at Zuma
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma should not spend one more day as head of state‚ according to ANC struggle veteran Sydney Mufamadi.
“We don’t know why he should stay for one more day after this conference. He knows he has nothing of value to add towards what the ANC is trying to do‚” Mufamadi said on Radio 702 yesterday.
He said the ANC needed to be an organisation that earned the same respect it had before Zuma’s tenure. He said the fiveday elective conference in Nasrec‚ which ended yesterday‚ was a “golden” opportunity to break free from the Jacob Zuma “stranglehold”.
“This is an opportunity to make a fresh start‚ to intertwine the ANC once more with all these organisations [Cosatu‚ SACP] and civil society that have a role to sensitise the ANC to the issues bothering our people‚” Mufamadi said.
He added that there was no basis for ANC members to stand on opposing sides when they should be dealing with the problems affecting the party.
Asked if he thought newly elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa would work well with Free State premier Ace Magashule‚ who has been elected secretary general of the party and is known to be a Zuma supporter‚ Mufamadi said: “I know Cyril’s disposition is to work with anybody who wants to make a contribution to our common effort to transform our country into a zone of development‚ peace and progress.”— DDC