Disgruntled former MK veterans want radical 'democratic advance':
constituency-based
representation<http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-12-03-disgruntled-former-mk-veterans-want-radical-democratic-advance-constituency-based-representation>

A group of ANC members who were members of Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile has
raised a major challenge to the leadership of the Umkhonto we Sizwe
Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) and to the Zuma election campaign
hierarchy in Luthuli House. By PAUL
TREWHELA.<http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-12-03-disgruntled-former-mk-veterans-want-radical-democratic-advance-constituency-based-representation>

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ANC's shootings and shootouts in the 'problem' province of North West

   -  MANDY DE WAAL
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Political pundits in the North West weren’t surprised at the news that a
possible assassination attempt had been made on the life of Kabelo
Mataboge, the ANC’s secretary for the province. Despite the usual denials,
factionalism has been a part of the province since the dawn of democracy,
and the ruling party’s cadre deployment “strategy” has made it impossible
for these schisms to heal. If anything, leadership politics and the war for
resources is making conflict worse. By MANDY DE WAAL, with additional
reporting by THAPELO LEKGOWA.

It was 3am on Friday 30 November 2012 when Kabelo Mataboge, the ANC
provincial secretary for the North West, arrived home in Mafikeng and got
out of a car to open the gates. Fourteen shots rang out in the dark, but
none of these would strike Mataboge. Only four lodged in his car. In a
province where political in-fighting and factionalism is boiling over,
Mataboge was lucky to survive what is being described by the media as a
failed assassination attempt.

But Mataboge is more pragmatic. In an interview with Daily Maverick from
the North West, the man described as a “radical young Turk” and a
“firebrand” by political opponents wasn’t about to make assumptions in
public. When asked why he’d been shot at, Mataboge said: “At this point one
cannot speculate but rather wait on the law to be accurate.”

However, Mataboge said he wouldn’t ignore the possibility that the shooting
was politically motivated. “I cannot rule that out. As we have seen in the
case of Moses (Moss)
Phakoe<http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-12-mk-veteran-arrested-for-murder>,
the
court was able to prove that his murder was politically motivated.” But
Mataboge wasn’t pointing any fingers. “There have been tensions and
disagreements in the province. One is not able to point out any
individuals, but yes, there are possibilities.”

The provincial secretary was horrified about local gossip that suggested
the event might have been a publicity stunt pulled to enhance his
popularity. “Why would one engage in such a horrible act to gain cheap
popularity? Those who say such statements and those in the ANC leadership
might be behind ordering the hit. This was a scare and it affected not me
alone but my family. Where the shooting took place there was my wife, my
eldest daughter, helper and a two-year-old baby girl. Why would I put them
through that for popularity?”

The SAPS has opened a case of attempted murder, and is appealing to members
of the public to come forward with information. “According to my
information, Kabelo Mataboge didn’t know which direction the shots came
from, and he didn’t see anything. Right now the suspects are unknown and
the investigation is ongoing,” said Lieutenant Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone, a
SAPS spokesperson for the North West Province. Asked if the police would
take any further steps to safeguard Mataboge’s life, Sabata said no.
“Nothing, as far as I know, unless we confirm that with the ANC, but from
our side there have been no instructions.”

When Daily Maverick asked the ANC whether it would be protecting its
political asset in the North West, ANC provincial spokesman Kenny Morolong
said: “The ANC is worried about every member who gets shot every day, um, I
mean who gets shot. We are particularly perturbed by this incident, which
was a threat on our own provincial secretary’s life; we were perturbed by
it. We conveyed a message of sympathy to the Mataboge(s) and wished them
well in this sad occasion,” he said.

“We have also said that we will do everything in our power, together with
the police, to make sure the investigation and subsequent arrest is
expedited. At the moment the police will advise us about security. But we
are very shocked about this incident,” Morolong added, pointing Daily
Maverick to a very carefully worded media statement that said much the
same, but without the apparent Freudian slip.

What was the cause of the murder attempt? Did it have anything to do with
the bitter and violent in-fighting in the province? Morolong baulked at the
question. “I don’t know what you are talking about. There is no fighting in
the North West. I am not aware of any faction fighting. I am not aware of
it,” the provincial spokesman said a number of times.

“We in the ANC are indebted not to become friends, but to lead this
society. We don’t have to be friends and we don’t have to visit each other
in order to lead society,” Morolong underscored his point. The real
challenge, he declared, was one of political etiquette.

“At an organisational level there are challenges with regard to how the
organisation is run and so on, but I don’t think we can say that there are
two people fighting unless the organisation is torn apart on the basis of
their fight. That is not correct. What is correct is that we are dealing
with internal challenges that relate to behavioural patterns which are
inconsistent with behavioural culture and convention and policy,” Morolong
explained.

But those not toeing the party spin line would agree to disagree. “We have
been seeing this coming for a long time now. Comrade Supra (Mahumapelo) and
Kabelo serve in the same structures, but run different agendas,” Tshepo
Chente, ANCYL secretary for Ward 18 in Potchefstroom, told Daily Maverick.

“It is factional politics. Let’s be honest, there is a serious problem in
the ANC. No one has the interest of the organisation (at heart); it is all
based on individual interests,” he said. According to political experts
political factionalism was part and parcel of the North West even before
South Africa became a democracy.

Theo Venter, a political analyst at the North West University, says that
the political factionalism was now completely out of control, but wouldn’t
come as any surprise to anyone who knew the political history of the
province.

 “If you look back in 1993 going into 1994 there were three factions,”
Venter said, and explained that these factions were originally
geographically based. “The first faction, that had a very strong Vryburg
base, was led by Darkey Africa and all his cronies.” Africa is a former
member of the North West government and provincial legislature. “The second
faction included Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, and Brits; and was the
Moretele faction. The third grouping was Klerksdorp, Maquassi Hills,
Potchefstroom, and Ventersdorp,” said Venter.

At the time the latter group was the strongest because it included
representation from the National Union of Mineworkers, which was still the
most powerful union at the time. Back then the South African Communist
Party had stronger membership, which shored up this faction.

“The Vryburg group was mad because they wanted to be a part of the Northern
Cape, but were cut into the North West. The Moretele group was mad about
being in the North West because they wanted to be in Gauteng, and the
Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Ventersorp group were jealous of the other two
because they took responsibility for staging the coup that toppled Lucas
Mangope (the former head of Bophuthatswana).

The three groups found it difficult, if not impossible, to find agreement
with each other. “At one point I was involved in a ‘facilitation’ between
the three groups, because they couldn’t agree who must be the premier in
the province. At one point they had Mandela here to talk to the three
groups,” says Venter. Eventually it was agreed that an ‘outsider’ who was
broadly associated with that province be brought in.

The answer was Popo Molefe, one of the founders of the Azanian People’s
Movement and the United Democratic Front. The ANC hoped that by bringing in
a black consciousness stalwart, the schism in the North West would be
healed. Molefe was premier of the province from 1994 to 2004.

Molefe, who is currently executive chairman of Lereko Investment Holdings
and was awarded the Harvard University certificate for conflict resolution,
had an almost Biblical approach to the strife, and that was to make the
squabbling factions share the spoils.

“Sharing the spoils has been the culture of the North West ever since Popo
Molefe was premier, when the ANC tried to resolve the conflict by ‘sharing
the spoils’ or accommodating each of the warring factions. But all that
does is to entrench that leadership problem,” said Venter.

The provincial leader of the DA, Chris Hattingh, agreed that this ANC
strategy was causing frustration and increasing factionalism in the North
West. “Invariably the two senior positions in council and in the
legislature will normally be filled by the opposing factions,” Hattingh
told Daily Maverick. “The speaker and the chief whip will be from opposing
factions, or the mayor and the speaker. The ANC tries to balance things out
but it merely perpetuates and underscores the divisions and factionalism,”
Hattingh said.

The North West has long been dubbed the ANC’s “problem province”; even ANC
secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the
province<http://www.citypress.co.za/Politics/News/The-ANCs-problem-province-20101121>
was
“notorious for continued fights among very hostile and antagonistic
factions.”

At Polokwane in 2007, the North West was one of the four provinces that
backed Thabo Mbeki, and at the province’s elective congress in 2008 there
were protests and open fights when Mbeki loyalists dominated elections to
the provincial executive committee. The ANC disbanded the committee and
dispatched party heavyweights to sort out the problem. New leadership was
elected which saw the province coalesce between two leaders, Supra
Mahumapelo and Mataboge.

Supra Mahumapelo (originally an Mbeki loyalist who later became a Zuma
loyalist) was originally elected provincial secretary of the ANC, but when
the provincial executive committee was re-elected in February 2011, he was
made ANC provincial chair. Motlanthe loyalist Kabelo Mataboge took the
power position as ANC provincial secretary for the North West.

Here it is important to understand the party model the ANC, SACP and Cosatu
follow – it is not the leader of the party who is the kingpin, but the
secretary or the secretary general. That position manages the party on a
day-to-day basis, and is the de facto seat of power. “Nobody cares who the
president of the SACP is, because Blade Nzimande runs the show. Nobody
cares who the leader of Cosatu is because it is the secretary general who
is of major importance,” says Venter.

The reshuffling of the pack and ousting of Supra from the position of power
only increased polarisation in the province. “Mataboge was made secretary
against Supra’s will because they don’t see eye-to-eye. In June or July
this year, in a meeting that Supra wasn’t aware of, Mataboge fired him and
four other members of the ANC,” Venter added.

“If you add all of these things up there must be a lot of frustration that
boils down to people taking the law into their own hands. By getting the
power you get access to resources, to whatever the political arena can
provide,” Venter said.

“It is all about power and the control of financial resources,” the DA’s
Hattingh said, reiterating Venter’s view. “A vicious form of cadre
deployment is evident in government where factions are competing against
each other for positions – it is a matter of ‘you got this so we want
that’. It is about power, the control of financial resources, tenders, who
gets what and who gets deployed. The business of governance and service
delivery never comes into the equation. It is all about power.”

Hattingh told Daily Maverick he’d known Mataboge for a long time. “*He is
much more radical than Supra, but he also has the support of the premier,
Thandi Modise, who is much more inclined to support the Youth League and** *has
been seen with Malema on many occasions.”

As the North West’s leadership dramas were playing out, the Julius Malema
conundrum was coming to a head. “About 18 months to two years ago, with all
these provincial conferences taking place, the ANC Youth League group that
supports Julius Malema commenced its strategy to get hold of all the
provincial ANC secretaries wherever they could. They got this right in
Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and the North West,” Venter said of the Malema
faction’s move to buoy his power.

“If you get hold of the majority of the provincial secretaries, you get to
the point where branches get audited and letters of endorsement get drafted
and the true facts of the party are put on the table. That is the key role
of a provincial secretary. The Malema grouping rightly saw this as the seat
of power and thought that if you had that role in the party, you are
actually in charge, and this was their power play.”

And so it is that in provinces like the North West, Mahumapelo (the
provincial ANC leader) backs Zuma and Mataboge (the ANC provincial
secretary) backs Motlanthe in what could be the most contested ANC
leadership battle to date. Insiders say that right now Mataboge holds the
most power in the playoff between the two and has the backing of the
premier and Motlanthe.

Mataboge is described as a leftist socialist, while Mahumapelo is more of a
capitalist and an unashamed entrepreneur with
interests<http://www.360cure.co.za/supra.php> in
the travel, food and cultural industries. The public servant-cum-gospel
singer has been accused using the ANC to get
cash<http://mg.co.za/article/2012-07-26-anc-leader-got-travel-agency-cash>
for
his travel business and to record a CD.

Mataboge is said to be the North West lobbyist for the “forces of change”,
a movement by ANC members to support the
candidacies<http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=338556&sn=Detail&pid=71616>
of
Motlanthe, Phosa, Modise, Mbalula and Sexwale. “The change we advocate for
in this platform should stop the DA's encroaching of the ANC base and it is
(a) known fact that with President Zuma, who has lost confidence of the
people on the ground, the ANC will receive a reduced number of votes,
election after election,” a recent statement issued by the movement read.

“Kabelo’s ‘save our ANC’ campaign is relevant. The ANC needs a rescue but
it all depends on the methods used to rescue the organisation. Look at what
happened here in Tlokwe,” said the ANCYL’s Chente, referring to the
Potchefstroom municipality where factionalism saw
history<http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-11-27-potchefstroom-anc-north-wests-ok-corral-and-the-new-da-sheriff>
made
with the first DA mayor elected in the ANC stronghold of the North
West. The embarrassing own goal came after the Mataboge-aligned faction
successfully passed a motion of no confidence in the city’s (now ousted)
mayor.

“I promise you this will spread across the province if we are not careful.
Tlokwe is just a stepping stone,” Chente added. “Supra and them were anti
Zuma when we wanted Zuma as president; now they are for Zuma. The support
is not based on honesty, these comrades are now desperate and afraid of
being left out, (and) they will support anything that will retain their
power. Change and transformation comes in many ways and there is a need for
change in the ANC. Individuals should move aside and give priority to the
organisation,” he said.

The North West was due to announce its nominations for Mangaung as Daily
Maverick was going to publish on the night of Sunday 02 December 2012. The
nomination process mirrored the various complexities within the province.

Two days after the party nominations were due, there was not one, but two
provincial general councils. One was run by Supra Mahumapelo, and was
shifted at the last minute from Hartbeespoort to Rustenburg. Another
parallel conference was held at
Mafikeng<http://mg.co.za/article/2012-12-02-anc-n-west-moves-nominations-to-rustenburg>.
Meanwhile,
Gwede Mantashe was saying there weren’t to be two venues, only one, but the
problem province did exactly as it pleased. It split the meetings into two.

The North West has been split down the middle for years, and this is being
entrenched in the way cadres are deployed. There’s no reason for that to
change now.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Mataboge’s attempted murder – and the
risk of an explosive climax to the province’s problems – continues. *DM*

*UPDATE: South Africa woke up on Monday 03 November 2012 to discover that
Jacob Zuma triumphed in the North West, after the party had nominated him
as party leader for a second term. 162 votes went to Zuma in the North
West, while Kgalema Motlanthe only got 14.

Zuma’s overwhelming majority came despite a fierce campaign by ANC
provincial secretary, Kgabelo Mataboge, to push for the deputy president
Motlanthe’s nomination. Cynics could say that the attempt on Mataboge’s
life might have been enough to intimidate the Zuma opposition, or to get
Motlanthe acolytes to toe the line.

With media reports headlining Zuma’s massive
lead<http://www.iol.co.za/news/special-features/the-zuma-era/chaotic-meetings-give-zuma-a-big-lead-1.1434335#.ULxTGIN1-So>,
the president looks set for a second term. But political pundits are quick
to remind locals that the show isn’t over quite yet.*

Read more:

   - Murder attempt signals ugly turn in North West on
BDLive<http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/politics/2012/11/30/murder-attempt-signals-ugly-turn-in-north-west>

   - ANC in North West splits on nominations on
BDLive<http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/politics/2012/11/30/anc-in-north-west-splits-on-nominations>

*Photo: A woman sits beneath a recruitment poster for the National Union of
mineworkers close to the the entrance of the Royal Bafokeng Platinum
Rasimone mine near Phokeng in the North West province October 13, 2012.
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings *

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Mangaung: ABZ shifts to fight for TOTZ (Things Other Than Zuma)

   -  RANJENI MUNUSAMY
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   - 3 DECEMBER 2012 02:43 (SOUTH AFRICA)

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Many in the ruling party have resigned themselves to the fact that, based
on the outcome of provincial nomination conferences, President Jacob Zuma
is set to win another term as ANC leader in Mangaung. Those aligned to Zuma
are now looking into ways to reinforce his leadership, knowing the
pre-conference victory is nowhere near the end of his troubles. Those in
the “Forces of Change” are looking at what can be salvaged from their
failed bid to unseat the president. There are indicators that serious
negotiations for trade-offs are coming. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY.

The biggest difference in the anti-Zuma faction now to the one that existed
in the run-up to the ANC’s Polokwane conference five years ago is that two
weeks before Mangaung, most leaders in the group known as the “forces of
change” know that the game is up. In 2007, former President Thabo Mbeki and
his supporters refused to read the signs coming out of the provincial
nomination conferences that Jacob Zuma was about to defy the odds and win
the battle for the ANC presidency.

Mbeki’s destiny could have turned out differently, had he and his advisors
recognised that command of the ruling party was slipping away from them,
and pulled out of the election battle. Mbeki might have incurred the wrath
of some of his supporters, but he probably would have been left to serve
out his second term as state president had he willingly surrendered
leadership to Zuma before Polokwane, and there was a smooth transfer of
power.

But Mbeki was convinced by his acolytes that the indicators from the
provincial nomination conferences were misleading and that ANC delegates
would vote differently from the general slant of their provinces once they
were alone with their ballot papers in Polokwane. They were wrong.
Delegates voted like they were expected to vote, and Zuma won the divisive
battle.

Similar excuses and consolation stories are doing the rounds now among some
people opposed to Zuma’s re-election. They claim that at Mangaung, there
will be a greater number of delegates from KwaZulu-Natal voting for Deputy
President Kgalema Motlanthe (assuming he stands against Zuma for the
position of ANC president). They allege some of their supporters in
KwaZulu-Natal and other Zuma strongholds voted in favour of the president
at last week’s nominations conference because they were afraid there would
be a witch-hunt if there were significant numbers voting against him. This
could result in those suspected of being disloyal to Zuma not being allowed
to attend the national conference.

In many provinces, there were also allegations of vote-rigging and fraud,
and disputes over branch verification. These, coupled with factional
battles, led to three provinces, Limpopo, the Western Cape and North West,
missing the Friday night deadline for nominations for the Top Six and the
national executive committee (NEC) to be elected at the Mangaung conference.

The NEC is holding a special meeting on Monday to consider the complaints
and disputes over the nominations conferences and to decide whether to
relax the rules to allow those who missed the deadline to still submit the
names of their preferred candidates.

The votes from provinces which have already completed the nomination
process show that Zuma has already crossed the threshold of support
required to retain the presidency. Motlanthe has only been nominated by
Gauteng and the ANC Youth League, and even with support in the three
outstanding provinces, he is unlikely to make up the numbers to beat Zuma.

Those commiserating over their failed campaign are laying the blame
squarely on Motlanthe and his refusal to pay the game with them. They
believe that even with the numbers weighing in Zuma’s favour in his
provincial strongholds, they could have swung the balance of power had
Motlanthe been more visible and vocal and less reticent in the past few
months. Nobody at any level of the ANC has managed to draw Motlanthe out of
his shell, even in private, and this disorientated the campaign to replace
Zuma immensely.

On Friday, after being nominated by the influential Gauteng province,
Motlanthe told the Foreign Correspondents’ Association he was still
“agonising” over whether to run against Zuma. His statements at that
briefing were perhaps also an indicator that he is resigning himself to the
fact that he might end up out of the Top Six of the ANC: “I believe I will
always do my humble work at whatever level. I do not have to be in a
position of leadership. I am not a professional politician,” Motlanthe
said.

Businessman Cyril Ramaphosa has been nominated by Zuma-aligned structures
for the position of ANC deputy president after Motlanthe refused to give
them an assurance that he would not run for the presidency. In the early
hours of Saturday morning, the Northern Cape threw Motlanthe a lifeline by
nominating him for the position of deputy president. Up to this point,
Motlanthe’s chances of remaining in the top six looked slim. But
Ramaphosa’s votes for deputy president far outnumber Motlanthe’s, and his
ability to retain his position now rests on either Ramaphosa declining
nomination or a deal being struck to preserve the status quo.

While Motlanthe might be gearing himself for life away from the centre of
political power, this is not the end of the fight for the forces of change.
The battle is still on for the other four positions in the Top Six (Gwede
Mantashe looks certain to retain his position of secretary-general) and the
60-member NEC. The three outstanding provinces will still be determined to
have their nominations allowed for this reason.

The full collection of nominations from all nine provinces and the three
leagues (youth, women and veterans) will allow the electoral commission to
draw up a composite list of nominees for the ANC officials and NEC, but
will also allow the various lobby groups to have a complete picture as a
basis for negotiations.

Behind the scenes negotiations over NEC and policy positions took place
even in the fractured Polokwane environment, and are bound to happen again
now. There are already indications that approaches are being made at the
level of provincial chairmen to discuss a ceasing of hostilities. It is
also understood that informal discussions have been held with Mantashe to
broker agreement between factions.

No particular issues have yet been raised, but some leaders of the change
campaign say they might put the issue of the deputy presidency on the table
as some of Zuma’s lobbyists are uncertain about Ramaphosa and are amenable
to Motlanthe being retained. They are also hoping to reach agreement on
other positions such as that of national treasurer, as everyone seems to
want Mathews Phosa removed.

Negotiations over the NEC are expected to be a bun fight, though,
particularly as 20 less positions are now available following a decision at
the ANC’s June policy conference to reduce the number of seats from 80 to
60. The NEC list also has to be massaged to achieve 50-50 gender
representation.

Policy positions may also feature in the negotiations, particularly
economic policy shifts. However, since the policy conference, there appears
to be general agreement on the issue of strategic nationalisation of key
sectors of the economy, after the Zuma camp’s initial opposition to the
idea.

The next few days are likely to open a series of backroom negotiations to
secure trade-offs between the camps. This does not mean that the factional
warfare in some of the provinces such as the North West, Eastern Cape and
Limpopo might be settled, as many of these are proxy fights for deeper
localised battles.

Now that victory for Zuma looks certain, the forces of change are having to
shift focus to win ground on other issues. “Anything but Zuma” will have to
change to “things other than Zuma” for them to leave Mangaung feeling that
they still belong in the organisation and have some leverage in
decision-making. For the Zuma camp, the last thing they need is angry,
vengeful ANC members plotting the downfall of the president at a time when
he is extremely vulnerable.

Zuma might have won the presidency, but Mangaung is not a done deal yet.*DM*

*Photo: The newly elected top six-members of the ANC (L-R) Deputy Secretary
General Thandie Modise, Secretary General Gwede Mantashe, Chairperson
Baleka Mbethe, President Jacob Zuma, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and
Treasurer General Matthews Phosa pose for pictures during the third day of
a leadership conference in Polokwane December 18, 2007.    REUTERS/Siphiwe
Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA)*


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