OPINIONISTA: We – the good guys in the ANC – await battle orders, Mr President By Oscar Van Heerden Oscarknysna
with some trepidation as I must confess that over the past few weeks I too have grown uneasy with what is going on in our country and the ANC, and with the seeming inability by the Presidency to respond to such effect.
I think what Lediga was trying to bring across to us all is that old saying, often misattributed to Edmund Burke, that,In light of this, I also have to ask whether Ferial Haffajee is correct when she says the Presidency has lost momentum andIt’s all good and well that your office is forging ahead with matters of state, especially on the economic front – believe you me when I state that none of us takes issue with this, Mr President.
Factionalism and “money politics” are some of the critical weaknesses sapping the very revolutionary core of the organisation. While some detailed issues may have been attended to, there hasn’t been a systematic campaign to root this out. Indeed, it is these and other weaknesses that have resulted in disruptions of ANC meetings, worsened the ructions in the leagues and presented the spectre of violent conflict among Tripartite Alliance partners.
Beyond the subjective efforts required to address this challenge is the very question of how the progressive labour movement has found itself in such a rut.
Organisational renewal of the ANC, the leader of the progressive alliance, is central to addressing all these challenges. This requires more serious and practical intent to implement “the urgent and central tasks of renewal”. And yet, we are preoccupied with the “bulldust” of infighting and factions. I hear all this talk of “integrity committee this and integrity committee that” but nothing at all about the ANC’s disciplinary committee.
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