Rid ANC of rotten apples as elections loom

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa told a crowd of supporters at the weekend the governing party would still be around in 107 years’ time. Picture: Supplied/ANC

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa told a crowd of supporters at the weekend the governing party would still be around in 107 years’ time. Picture: Supplied/ANC

Published Jan 7, 2019

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We entered 2019, a year regarded as one of peace, unity and indeed a new dawn. As we do so I’m calling on the ANC, more especially its sober leadership in the capable hands of President Ramaphosa and in the Eastern Cape by comrade Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane, to ensure all ANC people are hard at work.

Twenty-five years into democracy, we cannot keep celebrating mediocracy.

Our ANC must make sure it sticks to its 2017 Nasrec resolutions by rooting out corruption and remove all rotten apples and in doing so bring trust to our people towards the general elections.

It’s a year for the ANC to isolate those bishops of factionalism and eliminate those corrupt deployees and senior heads. We have deployed politicians, senior administrators and officials who are tarnishing the good name of our ANC by being corrupt.

Those ministers, MECs, mayors, DGs, HODs, municipal managers, CEOs of SOEs, CFOs and district directors must be warned that the time is now to show them the door.

The time is now to name and shame those useless, selfish people tasked to deliver services, who instead focus on corrupting our systems, and feed their families and partners at the expense of the poor; those selfish individuals who behave as if they are kings and queens. It’s time now to clean our institutions. In the leadership of Ramaphosa and Mabuyane there is hope.

I, as an ANC member in good standing, affirm to help my ANC in naming useless and selfish individuals.

I’m taking a clear pledge of ensuring clean governance with no fear or favour. Our ANC Integrity Commission must also stop being biased and toothless and work independently.

I’m going to assist the Integrity Committee by revealing those undisciplined to be recalled. This year must be a year of delivery, not lip service, and a year of no mercy to corrupt individuals.

Viwe Sidali

East London

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