Zandile Gumede about-turn further undermines ANC

At a press conference on August 22, the deeply divided ANC KwaZulu-Natal leadership commended Zandile Gumede for the dignified manner in which she had accepted its decision to recall her as mayor of eThekwini.

The length of time the “horse-trading” took reflected the high stakes: whoever runs the municipalities also has oversight over the municipal coffers, from which patronage is dispensed in return for support from within and outside the ANC — whether the taps are closed or open, who gets to drink, how much and to what end.

The ANC’s provincial leadership has attempted to unify the party after divisions created in the build-up to the party’s national conference at Nasrec in 2017. But factionalism around support for current president Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, remains. Gumede and the former leadership of the Moses Mabhida region in Pietermaritzburg are considered belligerents aligned to Zuma and the continued attempts by his supporters to destabilise the party under Ramaphosa.

He said a “major part” of the ANC’s challenge to renew itself in a more united and ethical manner is “with our elected leadership that is distorting the value system of our movement. It’s the elected leadership that, in many instances, is acting in variance with what is expected … He added that this “boldness” included Gumede supporters disrupting a meeting of branches convened in eThekwini two weeks earlier to discuss the recall, where “comrades who are leaders of branches and councillors stood up and they banged tables and they threw chairs at the provincial leadership of the ANC”. He said this led to the ANC summarily suspending 10 of its members, in many instances branch leaders and councillors.

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