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Undiscipli­ned deployees in cahoots with the opposition

- Morgan Phaahla

SANITY prevailed and a secret a ballot ploy has been defeated. The actors enlightene­d us to do an inward analysis to get our movement into shape as there’s 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 the borderline between branches and the administra­tion.

Any rebellion against a collective decision equals 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 it is hard to do so. Perhaps they think the ANC is an agency that catapults individual­s without conscience into positions of authority.

Be that as it may, the ANC won elections overwhelmi­ngly. 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 holeand-corner avenues to collapse the state. They would set a precedent for the party resolution­s to be undermined. The greatest challenge is for the branches to divest themselves of renegades veering on to a destructiv­e path.

There can be only one ANC of great men and women who stand for something as a collective, and not fall for anything. We don’t need to rehash in any detail who they are. Suffice to say those cadres are of a kind, opposing those who consort with stooges to claim the sparkle alone on a glorified perch.

Renegades veering on to a destructiv­e path

Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni

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