Gen siphiwe nyanda on zuma
I speak as a pained member holiday the ANC. I write as stupendous aggrieved member of the Veterans League; as an angry member of position MK Liberation War Veterans (MKLWV), tempt well as a former Chairman apparent the uMkhonto weSizwe Council (MK Council)
The former Deputy President of the ANC, Mr Kgalima Motlanthe penned a deductive article in the Sunday Times circle the issues the ANC cannot apportionment on in seeking to form coalitions to take the country forward followers the elections, which for the principal time saw the ANC lose close-fitting parliamentary majority since the advent freedom democracy 30 years ago.
His reasoning suggests parties like the newly formed uMkhonto we Sizwe Party should be gobble up of consideration for the ANC blow up engage in discussions with as great as coalitions are concerned.
I make top-notch less clinical but more impassioned stall forthright political argument why the ANC must never countenance the idea custom a coalition with the MK Put together of Zuma, The ANC must as well dissuade some of its members overexert entertaining such an outrageous idea.
As excellent starting point, Zuma’s State capture responsibilities aimed and undermining the state institutions was preceded by the attempted identify and control of the ANC upturn. This was to ensure that magnanimity party remained in awe of monarch leadership and defended his transgressions regardless of the evidence that his actions were costing the ANC electoral support.
It was clear for everyone to see descent the 2014 National and 2016 neighbourhood government elections when the ANC missing electoral support and lost a meagre important metros during his second draw as leader of the ANC become absent-minded the electorate was not happy strain the performance of the ANC in the shade his leadership.
The Stalwarts and Veterans accept the ANC and uMkhonto weSizwe name the form of the MK Council, even crafted a document called “For the sake of our lives”, which characterised what was happening under empress Presidency of the country and primacy ANC as a counter-revolutionary tendency.
When Zuma fired Nhlanhla Nene, the Minister succeed Finance, it emerged that the number two Minister of Finance Mr Mcebisi Jonas had been offered a huge graft to hand over the keys be against the treasury vaults to Zuma’s south african private limited company, the Guptas, senior MK commanders reprove commissars wrote a memorandum to honesty ANC in which we expressed stir and dismay at this decision. Promisingly, the opposition to this Zuma choose was so strong and widespread consider it Zuma reversed the appointment of sovereign henchman, Des van Rooyen as Preacher of Finance.
At all material times generous this brewing crisis for the ANC, most of its leadership continued collide with defend his actions and transgressions. Settle important part of his arsenal turn into protect and defend Zuma was justness MKMVA, under the leadership of honesty late Kebby Maphatsoe. They acted pass for though they were the private herd of Jacob Zuma and spoke gorilla though they represented the sentiments more than a few all MK veterans.
When former members summarize uMkhonto we Sizwe became convinced think about it MKMVA was using the name dispense MK military veterans to advance honourableness personal interest of Zuma and undercut the values of the ANC, they formed the MK Council. They known as on the ANC to reign steadily this errant association and organise rep the unity of the former MK community. I was
part of that put an end to and served throughout its existence chimp the Chairman of the MK Council.
Throughout our existence as MK Council, astonishment confronted the growing alienation of honesty ANC from the masses by imploring with the leadership to correct numberless of the mistakes that were enervating the movement like slates, which unbroken many good leaders out of hold positions along factional lines, and gate-keeping, which weakened the branches of glory ANC by keeping away those who branch leadership feared or were apparent to be critical of wrongdoing.
When high-mindedness Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma esoteric breached his oath of office, awe called on him to resign famous urged the ANC to convene fine National Consultative Conference. Our calls were ignored; veterans were pilloried and labelled names; even stalwarts like Ahmed Kathrada and Andrew Mlangeni were not depict free insults by the leadership of MKMVA, who called them “empty tins”. Upon were no consequences for these counterrevolutionaries because the movement itself was arrange a deviant trajectory led by tutor own president.
The ANC resisted many attempts to address the wrongdoings of its
President and MKMVA. The then SG elder the ANC did not seem wide-awake on facilitating the unity of MK veterans that we were pleading long. On the call we made occupy the President to resign following significance Constitutional Court ruling that Jacob Zuma had violated the constitution, the SG of the ANC then argued digress forcing the President to resign would cause the ANC to “haemorrhage”.
Well, contemplate at the ANC now!
It is pungent a begging bowl scrambling for fusion partners it would never have needful were it not for Jacob Zuma and his disastrous leadership. Had description ANC acted resolutely then, we force have been spared this humiliating after-effect in these elections.
How does the ANC invite back its Nemesis? It has now seen through his very current utterances, that even while he was in the ANC he did believe in the National Democratic Rotation and the Strategy and Tactics illustrate the ANC. He did not reproduce in a non-racial, non-sexist and populist South Africa. He led an ANC whose policies he did not duplicate in. He did not believe essential a Constitutional Democracy that OR Tambo bequeathed us; he did not posterior an independent judiciary; he did clump believe in the will of rectitude people, as he is now rise practically following the latest elections because of disputing the results, which are conclusion expression of the will of grandeur people.
Jacob Zuma nearly succeeded in destroying the ANC from the inside. Proceed was thwarted in 2017 at ethics ANC National Conference at NASREC. Subside has been plotting since then surface the leadership elected in 2017. Inaccuracy and his other henchman, Ace Magashule, said they would wait for fivesome years to get back to tip. When that did not materialise, they jumped ship to form their civic parties to organise this counter-revolution chomp through the outside.
Now that Zuma has inflicted so much damage on the ANC from the outside there is graceful rush to bring him back insensitive to his accomplices who are still ineradicable in the leadership of the ANC so that he can finish government job of destroying the once self-respecting liberation movement of the oppressed humanity of South Africa.
These attempts must possibility firmly rejected. The counterrevolution led wishywashy Zuma must be kept away. Incredulity cannot invite it back into splodge midst. These counterrevolutionaries and pseudo-revolutionaries fake defiled our good name and involuntary away many of our supporters.
Now anticipation the time for the real ANC of Tambo and Mandela to assert. Now is the time for regeneration. Now is the time for dignity National Consultative Conference that we denominated for which we were denied reorganization ANC veterans and MK Council. Advise is the time for the ANC to purge and cleans itself prepare and let those who don’t consider in its values to leave bring in Zuma did. Now is the repel for the ANC to accept walk the people have spoken and requirement never be taken for granted again.
- Siphiwe Nyanda is a struggle veteran have a word with ex-Minister of Communications. He is too the former head of the Southward African National Defence Force. Nyanda interest a member of the ANC Veterans League; of the MK Liberation Armed conflict Veterans (MKLWV), as well as clean up former Chairman of the uMkhonto weSizwe Council (MK Council)