*NUMSA KZN CALLS ON ANC TO DEAL WITH COMRADE TSOTSI’S & LOCAL STATE TENDERPRENEURS!*
*31 March 2011* The KwaZulu-Natal National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (*Numsa*) condemns the anarchic behaviour by disgruntled communities and members of the ANC-led Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal, demanding the alteration of the 2011 Local Government electoral list or nominations processes. This anarchistic behaviour by the disgruntled members undermine some legitimate grievances that some Branches or structures might have on the flawed list processes, and they are foreign and alien to the culture and traditions of the ANC, and the liberation Alliance as a whole. We call on members to exercise maximum discipline and explore internal organizational mechanisms to deal with whatever grievances they might have pertaining to the processes that unfolded in their respective Branches or Regions. The name of the ANC and the liberation Alliance as a whole should not be brought into disrepute through thuggery means and the long defeated behaviour of Comrade Tsotsis. The name of the ANC is a precious name to the millions of South Africans, and those who long departed serving the ANC to liberate the people of South Africa from the yoke of oppression and subjugation. The ANC cannot be bullied as we see in other failed splinter organisations; the name of the ANC is bigger than individuals and factional interests. The ANC will continue to be the ANC of the poor, and it will out-live all of us, and we should respect the ANC and the generation that has served this organisation before us. We call for strong leadership from the ANC, and the Alliance, as a whole, in dealing decisively with this behaviour which has a potential to liquidate and defocus the working class formations from pursuing a radical National Democratic Revolution (NDR) as encapsulated in the Freedom Charter. The leadership of the ANC and the Alliance needs to be honest and take collective blame of this unwarranted storming into offices by disgruntled members of the organisation. We need to accept that the conditions to serve the ANC or the Liberation Alliance are now different from those of the 60’s or 80’s. The ANC and the Alliance are now in power, and to some serving or joining the ANC comes with access to perks and privileges. This has triggered a situation whereby members or sympathizers of the ANC and the Alliance see these perks or privileges as a quick or short route to escape from poverty and social misery. We need to accept that the social and living conditions of our people have worsened and we need to deal with these social pitfalls because these pitfalls are ticking bomb waiting to explode. Therefore these storming into offices by members should not be de-linked from the conditions our people find themselves living under. Another challenge is that local Tenderpreneurs have captured our structures and activist for their own self-centred accumulation interests in the local state, this is evidenced by their preferred Ward Councilor’s candidatures in their respective Wards. This should be nipped in the bud! As Numsa, on our part we will work closely with the structures of the ANC and the Alliance at a local level as part of mobilising our communities around the Local Government Electoral commitments of the ANC-led Alliance. We believe that this will be the best way to re-channel or win over the disgruntled members to campaign for a decisive ANC electoral victory. The threatening with suspensions or expulsion of members by our leaders using the media as Hotline is like pouring paraffin in a fire. We call on all those members who have been storming into ANC offices pertaining to the list or nomination processes to dis-engage from such, and use proper organisational platforms to vent their dissatisfaction and anger. Storming into ANC offices and assaulting leadership warrants an immediate expulsion from the organisation and constitutes a criminal offence. The ANC is not an organisation of thugs or comrade tsotsi’s, established in shebeens or taverns. The ANC is a revolutionary national liberation movement, a movement that is deeply entrenched on the South African masses geared towards attaining the goals of the Freedom Charter. The ANC should draw lessons from these disgruntlements by our members with an intention of mounting an agenda that restores the bulk of the wealth of our country to the people as whole, as resolved in Morogoro 1969. We call on our communities around the province of KzN to refuse to be misled by those who have decided to contest as independent candidates by isolating them through the ballot box in favour of the ANC-led Alliance. Contact: *Mbuso Ngubane, KwaZulu-Natal Regional Secretary - 079 502 3242* -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
