KwaZulu-Natal's ANC alliance partners say the provincial executive committee, led by chairman Siboniso Duma and secretary Bheki Mtolo, has not met in more than a year and has not discussed important decisions. He has publicly criticized the organization. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
After months of tensions between the South African National Civic Organization in KwaZulu-Natal and the ANC, Sanko has decided to immediately sever ties with its “arrogant” alliance partner.
The decision comes as the beleaguered ANC province faces possible dissolution by the party's national executive committee next month following its defeat in KwaZulu-Natal in the May 29 election. This will be a further blow to the leadership.
The party's vote share in the state has fallen to 17% (equivalent to 14 parliamentary seats), and the state's unity government is now led by the Inkatha Freedom Party, straining relations with longtime allies. is increasing.
Sanco has historically been allied with the ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Cosatu), but decided to end the relationship at a recent provincial executive committee meeting.
KwaZulu-Natal's ANC alliance partners say the provincial executive committee, led by chairperson Siboniso Duma and secretary Bheki Mtolo, has not met in more than a year and has not discussed important decisions. He has publicly criticized the organization.
Sanko KwaZulu-Natal secretary Sizwe Cele said in a letter to Mtolo this weekend that Sanko and other partner countries had made numerous attempts to hold an alliance meeting with the ruling party since late last year. He said he came. But with “nothing progressing”, Sanko, the SACP and Cosatu held a conference in June to “express their dissatisfaction with the failure of the ANC to lead and lead the coalition in the province”.
“ANC KwaZulu-Natal has done nothing to indicate that it intends to make the alliance work again,” Cele said. “Instead, the ANC will further strain the alliance.
“This is evidenced by the fact that today, as we approach the end of the year, not a single alliance meeting or bilateral meeting between the two countries has been held this year.”
Mr Sanko said the “one-sided and false political relationship” continues to prove that the ANC is “led by arrogant and factional leaders who are happy to see the alliance disappear by their own hands”. I believed there was.
Mr Cele said the Sanco provincial executive committee had “reached the conclusion to sever ties with the ANC KwaZulu-Natal province with immediate effect”.
This means that the party does not participate in the ANC program, does not invite party leadership to participate in its activities, and “doesn't respect it anyway.”
Mr Cele said provincial leadership had informed Sanco national leadership of the decision and remained committed to KwaZulu-Natal's alliance with the SACP and Cosatu.
Both the SACP and Cosatu have publicly complained about the alliance's functioning in the province and its exclusion from decision-making by the ANC leadership.
ANC spokesperson Mafika Mndebele said the party would not respond publicly to Sanko.
“Sanko was critical of the ANC before, during and after the election,” Mr Mndebele said. “Although the ANC will not engage publicly, we will continue to work towards the revival of the organization. The work will continue.”
Mr Mndebele said it was inevitable that disagreements would arise between alliance partners.
“We have relationships with all our alliance partners, but as an independent organization they may sometimes have a different view than us and we accept that as the ANC,” he said. Said.
