ANC MK council demands urgent consultative conference
13 April 2017
Johannesburg - The ANC's Umkhonto we Sizwe national council wants the party's June policy conference canned and replaced with an urgent national consultative conference.
This would be the only way to "arrest the further downward spiral of the ANC" following President Jacob Zuma's late night Cabinet reshuffle on March 30, the council said on Thursday. It is led by former MK generals.
Former chief of the SANDF, General Siphiwe Nyanda, said differences over the Cabinet reshuffle within the ANC's top six and the country's debt being downgraded to junk status had made the "deepening crisis within the ANC even more stuck".
"We find the unprecedented ructions within the topmost echelons of the organisation, around the recent Cabinet reshuffle, most regrettable and debilitating in the extreme."