Mabuyane calls for unity within ANC structures
[caption id="attachment_215587" align="aligncenter" width="536"] Recently elected ANC provincial chairman Oscar Mabuyane
Picture: Annelisa Swana[/caption]
Anarchy won’t change anything – provincial chairman
No amount of anarchy is going to change the leadership of the ANC’s provincial executive committee (PEC) in the Eastern Cape. That was the message delivered by recently elected provincial chairman Oscar Mabuyane at an ANC PEC meeting with alliance partners and structures at Bayworld yesterday.
“We’re so busy being at each other’s throats that we can’t even exploit opportunities that can easily bring the ANC back into power in this metro,” Mabuyane said.
Mabuyane spoke of unity within the party and with its alliance structures such as the SACP, Cosatu and the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco).
“Here in Nelson Mandela Bay, there is no ANC without SACP, Cosatu and Sanco,” he said.
Nelson Mandela Bay acting regional ANC chairman Phumzile Tshuni, who is a supporter of Phumulo Masualle, conceded that they would suspend their disagreements with the PEC leadership until the national executive committee (NEC) decided on the legitimacy of the conference.
“The issue of the PEC was discussed at a national working committee [NWC] meeting last week and it was concluded that the PEC would be the PEC until further notice,” Tshuni said.
“There will be an NEC meeting from
November 11 to 13 and in that meeting the NEC will either endorse the PEC or nullify the conference, and until then all branches of the ANC in the province are following the instructions of the officials of the party nationally,” Tshuni said.
Mabuyane said: “In the ANC we don’t have communist party, we don’t have Cosatu. “But in the ANC we have members who are communists who must work tirelessly to influence the ANC to ensure that it doesn’t deviate from the revolution.”
Provincial ANC secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi noted the absence of some of the PEC and regional executive committee (REC) members and said even though there were people absent, the goal of unifying the organisation in the region was well on its way.
Ngcukayitobi said visits to different regions, including the Joe Gqabi District and Buffalo City Municipality, “is part of entrenching the renewal of the organisation, working with the branches, working with the REC and working with the alliance structures and various stakeholders”.
He said they had dealt with the state of the ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay, the state of the ANC caucus and with general delivery of services in the Bay.
Ngcukayitobi revealed that nomination processes had started leading up to the ANC national conference in December but the process was slow.
“Nominations at branch meetings have started and we think that matter will be concluded by November 12,” he said. “We have set down the processes towards that and we think we have rectified everything that we think is a hindrance to that process.”
