Pretoria - Black First Land First (BLF) president Andile Mngxitama has once again lashed at the ANC, saying the governing party was on its deathbed because it was “old” and “tired”, with no more vision and vitality.
The liberation movement was about to give power back to white people in the 2024 national elections, he said.
Mngxitama’s observations come against the backdrop of the ANC’s 55th elective conference that saw President Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as party leader during a faction-riddled event at Nasrec, Joburg, last month.
According to Mngxitama, his assertions are informed by the way the DA, led by John Steenhuisen, was running strategic metros such as Joburg and Tshwane on the ticket of a coalition government through predominantly “black” parties like the EFF and ActionSA.
Both municipalities have been governed by the DA through coalitions that include the EFF and ActionSA since the results of the 2021 local government elections.
Speaking to the Pretoria News this week, Mngxitama insisted that the ANC would not come out alive from the 2024 polls, losing its grip on the country through coalitions.
“Julius Malema (EFF president) and Herman Mashaba (ActionSA) will give the presidency to Steenhuisen through a coalition, and this country will be right back in the hands of white people,” said the controversial BLF leader.
The ANC has been in power since the April 1994 elections after years of brutal oppression of black people by a white government through apartheid that discriminated against the black majority.
Mngxitama believes that the gains made in 1994 were about to be lost.
He said this was because the ANC was a “spent force” and had no more vitality or vision, and was only kept alive by a reputation of being a liberation movement.
However, the majority of 2024 voters would not have the sentimental attachment to the ANC of their parents, Mngxitama said.
“Look at the City of Cape Town. Whites locked in their wealth, and blacks locked in their poverty. That’s the racist DA model, which would be made the national policy.”
Mngxitama said the DA did not compromise its white agenda, and policies like BEE and affirmative action would be reversed if they were to come into power.
The Pretoria News can also reveal that the BLF was in talks with the Land Party, who they might enter into an agreement with to contest the 2024 elections under one banner. This was because BLF preferred a coalition of left parties with a black consciousness and pan-Africanist outlook, which would be anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.
Asked what he thought of former ANC member Carl Niehaus’ newly formed organisation, the Radical Economic Transformation Movement, Mngxitama said it was a logical conclusion.
“The ANC failed to reform itself as the outcomes of Nasrec show. Those who are serious about RET have to realise that the ANC can’t push that agenda.”
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe was not available for comment on the assertions of Mngxitama.
Researcher and scholar Dominic Maphaka mirrored Mngxitamasa’s views that the country was heading towards a national coalition government that would be triggered by a decline in support for the ruling party.
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