By Angela Quintal
President Thabo Mbeki has read the riot act to African National Congress members and warned that those who refuse to accept decisions of the national executive committee (NEC) will be dealt with.
Writing in the on-line publication ANC Today, the president defended this week's decision by the NEC to nullify the results of the party's Eastern Cape election.
The information considered by the NEC confirmed that the Eastern Cape provincial leadership had been chosen through processes that excluded the majority of members.
'They have tried to project our leadership as a self-serving cabal' "To defend the democratic constitution, regulations and traditions of the ANC, the NEC took the correct decision to defend its internal democracy," he said.
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If the same people were properly elected next year, the NEC would gladly accept the outcome, he said, saying the issue had nothing to do with personalities.
Mbeki warned that any sectarian manipulation that conferred undemocratic power to any particular grouping would split the party into hostile factions.
He noted that the media had quoted members of the broad democratic movement, including the ANC, who had denounced the decisions of the NEC.
"This raises the critical question about whose interests these supposed members of the ANC and our broad democratic movement represent. Obviously, such genuine members would never condone the subversion of internal democracy within the ANC."
'They are ready to spin-doctor the messages' If the media reports were correct, "the members who chose publicly to adopt positions in favour of these outcomes will have to explain themselves through the processes provided for in our constitution and regulations", said Mbeki.
"The appropriate constitutional bodies will have to decide what the response of the movement should be to those who carry our membership cards, and yet elect to act against decisions of the constitutional structures of our movement, properly arrived at."
There were others in South Africa who sought to question NEC decisions and claimed that the ANC's national leadership was uncomfortable with the election results.
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