‘Magashule not good for ANC’
He’s hostile to the media, says analyst
Political analyst Mcebisi Ndletyana has slammed the election of Ace Magashule as the new secretary-general of the ANC.
Ndletyana has said that the election of Magashule as the new administrative head of the governing party did not augur well for its efforts to reclaim its credibility given his implication in allegations of state capture and poor state of ANC branches in his home province of Free State.
“At a party level you can’t really have Ace Magashule PUBLISHERS: and as the SG. He’s very hostile to the media because of all sorts of impropriety he’s been accused of. Free state ANC is pretty much in disarray because of that man.
“He’s just been effectively found guilty for the second time by the courts of manipulating ANC processes, so if you say as the ANC we want to do things differently, Ace is not the guy to do it,” said Ndletyana. He said the election of David Mabuza as the deputy president would also prove problematic in the run up the general election in 2019.
“Mabuza also has his own problems from Mpumalanga. He’s being accused of bribing and threatening journalists, so it’s bad news.”
ANC Youth League president Collen Maine, who had campaigned vociferously for the election of Nkosazana DlaminiZuma, appeared unhappy about the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the new president of the party.
“We support the collective leadership. Ramaphosa is part of that leadership. But we will not speak about him alone,” he said.
However, Maine said the youth league accepted the outcome of the conference.
ANCYL secretary general Njabulo Nzuza said they were disappointed that Nkosazana DlaminiZuma was defeated.
Former ANCYL deputy president Ronald Lamola said the ANC leadership race represented a new lease of life for the party.
“We congratulate the newly elected officials, it is a new lease of life to the ANC.”