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OPINIONISTA: The country, not the ANC, comes first, always

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This weekend’s special national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC was meant to be one where President Cyril Ramaphosa reasserts his authority in the governing party.

Having penned a strongly worded seven-page letter to the party’s rank and file membership, a week ago, the president was clear that corruption will not be tolerated and that he had drawn a line in the sand.

All these developments happened against the backdrop of the bizarre appointment of controversial former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede as a member of the provincial legislature in KwaZulu-Natal last week.

Is this a person worthy of election as a public representative? Ordinarily, the answer to such a question should be a no-brainer. But to a depraved organisation that is the ANC and its morally bankrupt leadership, the Gumede issue is nothing more than an issue that they can easily explain away.Not even a seven-page missive from President Ramaphosa to the party’s one million members can change that.

So all of this just to cure awkwardness on the council corridors because Gumede had been reduced to an ordinary councillor? In 2017, former president Kgalema Motlanthe raised the party’s ire when he argued that the ANC would only get a wake-up call when it loses power. No truer words have ever been spoken.

 

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