ANC will find it hard to win in province, says Phosa Setumo Stone, Business Day, Johannesburg, 23 February 2015 Former African National Congress (ANC) treasurer-general Mathews Phosa says that "problems on the ground" in Mpumalanga would make it difficult for the ANC in the province to win next year's local government elections. Mr Phosa on Sunday warned against factionalism in the ANC, saying the party should do away with the practice of "members of the ANC belonging to other members". He was delivering a lecture in memory of former South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Joe Slovo in Middelburg Mpumalanga. "Members must support the party and not individuals. Those who divide us must go," Mr Phosa told members and supporters of the SACP, which has been campaigning for the ANC to remove David Mabuza as premier and "deploy him elsewhere". Last month saw violent incidents in Kanyamazane township in Mpumalanga when the same SACP memorial lecture was cancelled because ANC members supporting Mr Mabuza objected to Mr Phosa's appearance as keynote speaker, and attacked their SACP allies with sticks, stones and knobkerries. Last September Mr Phosa delivered an intelligence report alleging that Mr Mabuza was a former apartheid spy. Business Day understands that the ANC is still looking into the veracity of the report. On Thursday ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe held a meeting with the ANC's leaders in Mpumalanga in a bid to tackle violence against the SACP. Another high-profile meeting was held on Friday, between ANC veterans and members of the SACP, where it was concluded that the Kanyamazane incident should be investigated. Earlier in Sunday's proceedings former ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola challenged "senior ANC leaders" to reveal Mr Mabuza's struggle credentials. Mr Lamola said that if Luthuli House failed to take action then ANC members and supporters would take matters into their own hands. "Luthuli House has been too lenient to this man," he told about 400 SACP and ANC members attending the lecture. Mr Mabuza said last month that "for me to be the provincial ANC chairperson, I was not just dropped from heaven. I have worked hard through the ranks of the government and the ANC, but because I am ANC chairperson and premier, today I am called with names." He has said there is a personal "problem" between him and Mpumalanga SACP provincial secretary Bonakele Majuba. Mr Majuba said on Sunday ANC members should guard against "those who claim to be seniors while they were apartheid spies". From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/politics/2015/02/23/anc-will-find-it-hard-t o-win-in-province-says-phosa -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
