Party needs intervention from above, says Cele
ANC heavyweight Bheki Cele said the ruling party did not have the endorsement of Jesus Christ‚ and that hubris in the run-up to the 2019 general elections would result in its downfall.
Cele‚ addressing a crowd of hundreds at a South African National Civic Organisation event in Esikhawini on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast yesterday, said that the party was not ordained by God and would need nothing short of divine intervention to cling to power.
“We are not ordained by anybody to rule until Jesus comes back‚” he said.
President Jacob Zuma has previously held that the ANC would rule until Jesus’ second coming‚ a narrative which Cele venomously undercut.
“We will only continue to rule if we are humble‚” Cele said.
“The reason the ANC is losing votes is because the people say we have social distance‚ arrogance‚ that we are corrupt and because of factionalism.”
He used the platform to take aim at Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma‚ her former husband’s tainted relationship with the Gupta family and factionalism eroding
The ANC is losing votes because of arrogance and that we are corrupt
the support base of the ANC.
“We are going to elect a president for the ANC‚ we have already elected a president for the [ANC] woman’s league‚” he said to applause from the crowd.
The former police commissioner also levelled his sights at the Guptas and said that no one had been held accountable for the Waterkloof Airforce Base debacle.
In 2013, a private jet chartered by the family and filled with guests attending a lavish wedding landed at the base.
“I was once police commissioner and I’ve never landed on a military base before‚ but people who came to get married land at our bases,” Cele said.
“They land there‚ they get escorted by blue lights [vehicles] to their wedding.
“These people [the Guptas] came‚ got married and then didn’t go home.
“Apparently they have a habit of calling ministers to their home, asking them what they have.” – TimesLIVE