ANC rebels must join opposition

Sanity prevailed and a secret ballot ploy has been defeated. The actors enlightened us to do an inward analysis to get our movement into shape as there’s indicative evidence of cracks from within.

The ANC leadership must remind deployees that the power lies with the branches as the strategic centre that deploys cadres to realise the promise of a better life. The NEC is simply the borderline between branches and the administration.

So, any rebellion against a collective decision equals to defying the very branches that entrusted them with the mandate to uphold the ANC aspirations in their deployments.

Such members need to do the honourable thing and join the opposition without any troubles. I do not know why is it hard to do so? Perhaps they think the ANC is an agency that catapults individuals without conscience into positions of authority.

Be as it may, the ANC won elections overwhelmingly and deployed Jacob Zuma, pictured, in parliament to serve as head of state. There’s no way an elected president can be removed by a band of undisciplined deployees in cahoots with opposition forces.

The ANC doesn’t need members who resort to hole-andcorner avenues to collapse the state. That would set a precedent for the party resolutions to be undermined. The greatest challenge is for the branches to divest themselves of renegades veering onto a destructive path. There can be only one ANC of great men and women.

Ekurhuleni

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