Must follow Madiba’s legacy

As we celebrate Tata Nelson Mandela's 100 years we as the ANC must look back to the values our icon stood for and further look to our recent 54th ANC national elective conference at Nasrec in 2017.

There we as branch delegates reaffirmed the urgent need for renewal, recognising that renewal was principally about rebuilding the ANC's resilience, enhancing its transformative and governance capacity, and rooting out crippling ill-discipline and factionalism within.

The ANC at Nasrec in 2017 realised that it had to renew itself so that it remained relevant to the changing conditions of the struggle and continued to lead the national democratic revolution (NDR) successfully as Mandela would love.

This phase will require maximum unity of the ANC and the alliance, enabling us to sharpen our capacity to advance and defend the NDR, including values our fallen heroes and heroines such as Mandela and Mama Albertina Sisulu stood for.

Those who took the ANC to court are hellbent on killing the ANC.

Dismantling all regions of the ANC will be a solution for our glorious movement and a gift to Tata Madiba as the move will advance unity and peace within.

All ANC regions must be renewed as well as its branches.

In the Eastern Cape the bone of contestation is not merely the PEC, but selfish and self-serving interests.

Those undermining the NEC decision on the Eastern Cape PEC are guided by greed and selfishness, and driving a dark agenda.

The ANC must dismantle them and their agenda.

They are using a few regions and a few branches to advance crippling ill-discipline and their self-serving interests.

To achieve renewal and to befit the call of laying down a legacy in honour of Madiba, I call on the ANC NEC and constitutionally elected PECs to dissolve regions.

Let's reposition the ANC as we commence the revolutionary journey towards the second century and indeed doing that in honour of Mandela and advance the centenary call of “Be the legacy”.

The ANC is still relevant.

Viwe Sidali

ANC Mzwanele Fazzie branch, East London