|
|
|
Last Updated: Oct 13, 2008 - 8:11:42 AM |
A senior ANC leader said all the premiers not loyal to ANC president
Jacob Zuma should be removed now because they would destabilise the ANC
once they were not nominated for government posts during the ANC's list
process next month.
"They will join (former defence minister Mosiuoa) Terror (Lekota) once
they're not on the list," he told The Star on Sunday.
Only three premiers linked to ex-president Thabo Mbeki - KwaZulu
Natal's Sbu Ndebele, Northern Cape's Dipuo Peters and Mpumalanga's
Thabang Makwetla - look set to serve their full term.
The ANC's national working committee was expected to descend on the
Free State on Monday after Zuma told The Star that Marshoff had been a
problem for the party for too long.
Zuma said the Free State ANC's demand to oust Marshoff had nothing to
do with the succession tensions.
He added that while the ANC was opposed to the arbitrary removal of
premiers, Free State's complaints could not be ignored.
"I think it will be a mistake to think that the demand for the Free
State premier to go is (happening) just now - it was there before
Polokwane. As you know, it is a conference decision of the province.
"We are not going to say those comrades do not have a problem, because
if the entire province has resolved that we don't want this particular
comrade, you can't say even if you don't want (her), have him or have
her," he said.
Three premiers are already gone and three others are fighting for their
careers.
Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa stepped down after the ANC recalled
Mbeki, while former Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Balindlela and the
Western Cape's Ebrahim Rasool were axed.
Limpopo Premier Sello Moloto has challenged the ANC to fire him after
he refused to reshuffle his cabinet, and North West Premier Edna Molewa
heard on the radio about her impending removal.
The provincial instability comes as the ANC is shaken by Lekota's push
for a national convention that could lead to a new party to challenge
the ANC at the polls next year.
Lekota's dissidents are setting up provincial offices and hoping to
convene a national convention next month, despite the ANC's
reconciliatory tone to negotiate.
Lekota, who was expected to meet ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa
today (Monday), told his supporters in Langa, Cape Town, on Saturday
that they must be ready to spill their blood for democracy.
The former ANC chairperson, who is apparently trailed by a mysterious
car and whose bodyguard was abducted last week, said they would not be
intimidated and would continue to mobilise.
Asked if he would prefer disciplinary actions against any ANC member
attending the convention, Zuma said: "Precisely, because as I am
saying, you can't be in the ANC and organise an anti-ANC convention and
use ANC members. That is going very far in terms of how ANC members are
expected to behave."
Source:Ocnus.net 2008
Top of Page
|
|
|
|