Assessment of the PEC Lekgotla
10 February 2016
The ANC Provincial Working Committee held its regular meeting on Monday, 8th February 2016 at Dr Pixley ka Seme house, ANC KZN Provincial Office. The PWC expressed its deepest appreciation and congratulated the ANC PEC, Alliance partners and deployed cadres from various state organs for a successful ANC Provincial Lekgotla.
The PWC is satisfied that the road towards the Local Government Election is lit with the greatest commitment and single-mindedness displayed by ANC cadres during the PEC Lekgotla. We are undoubtedly re-energized and ready, walking side by side with the masses of our people, for a decisive elections victory.
Accordingly, the Provincial Working Committee decided to reprioritize the tasks of the organization for this month and therefore postponed the March on Non-racialism, Unity and Democracy which was due to take place in Moses Mabhida region on Wednesday, 10th February 2016 to a later date still to be announced. Our first engagement on this subject will now begin with a panel discussion to be constituted by leading academics who will join the ANC Provincial Chairperson on a public discourse on this issue.
This unmediated forum will be held on Monday, 15th February 2016 at University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus. The African National Congress values the superiority of ideas in solving the challenges facing our people.
On Nkandla matter
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal noted and welcomed the intervention by President Jacob Zuma relating to the Nkandla matter which has been, unfortunately but expectedly, used by our political opponents for their self-serving political agenda. We are fully and unconditionally behind the ANC President and convinced that his proposed solution will help bring a closure on this matter.
The decision of the President is consistent with his long standing view that appropriate institutions should decide on whether he was personally liable for some of the costs on his homestead upgrade. We know that keeping this matter in a public domain, including going to the Constitutional Court, is intended to continue tarnishing the image of the President and our movement.
The alliance between the EFF and DA is forged on the basis objective to weaken and ultimately replace the ANC as the ruling party of our country. Of course this is a pursuit of an impossible dream.
Election of the Umzinyathi District Mayor
The ANC is immensely outraged by the continuous conduct of the IFP in disrupting the election of the District Mayor. Today was the third occasion wherein the imminently, unavoidable declining and terminal fractured Inkatha Freedom Party walked out of the Council meeting.
The exit of the IFP from political space in our province is irreversible and no amount of resistance will alter the current political trajectory. The IFP represents the past and has always depended on ethic card which is no longer holding to sustain its relevance.
The ANC calls on the people of Umzinyathi District Municipality to remain calm and patient as we advance towards the Local Government Elections which will mark an end on the IFP in that Council.
Issued by Super Zuma, ANC KZN Provincial Secretary, 10 February 2016
