An attempt to persuade President Jacob Zuma to disband the ANC’s Dr WB Rubusana region (former Buffalo City) failed this week.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) submitted a recommendation that it be replaced with a task team on day two of an alliance summit at the Osner Hotel, which ended on Monday.
Putting it to the Zuma-led national delegation, SACP provincial secretary Xolile Nqatha said if the IC recommendations had taken effect earlier then Mkolo, Simon-Ndzele and Gomba would not have been elected to the regional executive last November. Simon-Ndzele continues to serve as deputy regional chairwoman and Gomba as an additional member of the same REC.
Nqatha said the party found it odd that the Dr WB Rubusana REC had not been disbanded as the Nelson Mandela Metro REC had.
The Dispatch understands that ANC MP and provincial executive committee (PEC) member Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams told Nqatha he was being naive for asking such questions “while you also serve in that (ANC) PEC”. The sentiment was supported by Amathole regional secretary Terice Ntutu.
Speaking to the Saturday Dispatch yesterday, Nqatha said: “Simon-Ndzele remains REC deputy chairwoman, but if these recommendations were effected earlier there would not have been any conference last November. The same goes for Gomba.
“What we wanted to register as the SACP was that while we welcome the implementation of the recommendation, we want everyone to know that we take its implementation as halfhearted.”
The IC also recommended that Mkolo be subjected to a lifestyle audit. Nqatha said no such lifestyle audit had been done.
The summit invited delegates to submit any additional information that could help with the recommendation.
Nqatha said they were collecting data. “We are willing to approach the IC and submit whatever we have to assist them to get to the bottom of this.”
Mkolo, Ntutu and Ndabeni-Abrahams could not be reached for comment.
SACP fails in bid to disband ANC region
The South African Communist Party (SACP) submitted a recommendation that it be replaced with a task team on day two of an alliance summit at the Osner Hotel, which ended on Monday.
Putting it to the Zuma-led national delegation, SACP provincial secretary Xolile Nqatha said if the IC recommendations had taken effect earlier then Mkolo, Simon-Ndzele and Gomba would not have been elected to the regional executive last November. Simon-Ndzele continues to serve as deputy regional chairwoman and Gomba as an additional member of the same REC.
Nqatha said the party found it odd that the Dr WB Rubusana REC had not been disbanded as the Nelson Mandela Metro REC had.
The Dispatch understands that ANC MP and provincial executive committee (PEC) member Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams told Nqatha he was being naive for asking such questions “while you also serve in that (ANC) PEC”. The sentiment was supported by Amathole regional secretary Terice Ntutu.
Speaking to the Saturday Dispatch yesterday, Nqatha said: “Simon-Ndzele remains REC deputy chairwoman, but if these recommendations were effected earlier there would not have been any conference last November. The same goes for Gomba.
“What we wanted to register as the SACP was that while we welcome the implementation of the recommendation, we want everyone to know that we take its implementation as halfhearted.”
The IC also recommended that Mkolo be subjected to a lifestyle audit. Nqatha said no such lifestyle audit had been done.
The summit invited delegates to submit any additional information that could help with the recommendation.
Nqatha said they were collecting data. “We are willing to approach the IC and submit whatever we have to assist them to get to the bottom of this.”
Mkolo, Ntutu and Ndabeni-Abrahams could not be reached for comment.
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