Magashule is always troublesome

The ignorance of suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and others who are in his corner clearly demonstrate that politicians don’t learn.

The Morogoro conference, Julius Malema and Bantu Holomisa’s expulsions respectively from the ANC should remind many within the ANC that the party can close ranks and move on.

The latest development will limp the organisation that for more than two decades has been at war with itself. After the Polokwane watershed conference, Congress of the People (Cope) was born as a result of people who couldn’t accept the outcome that morally compromised former president Jacob Zuma triumphed in Polokwane.

There will be rebellion against the suspension of Magashule and the road to the 2022 conference will be turbulent one.

Magashule has always been troublesome and the party took a correct decision to clip his wings. His extension of the step-aside resolution to cause confusion was proof that he was defining himself as bigger than the organisation.

His opponent President Cyril Ramaphosa, in the principle of clean governance, has won the heart of the national working committee, and the radical economic transformation faction can’t be seen as victims of circumstances to sway even public sympathy should they plan to launch an attack against the Ramaphosa faction.

The laughable action of the suspended secretary-general to solely write a suspension letter to the sitting president of the ANC is a recipe for expulsion.