Saturday 19 August 2017 20:59
Manelisi Dubase
First Deputy President of the SACP Solly Mapaila has called on President Jacob Zuma to resign.(SABC)
A threat to discipline dissenting African National Congress (ANC) Members of Parliament was a mere distraction. This is according to the South African Communist Party (SACP). It said serious issues such as corruption are not being headlined by the ANC.
The SACP was celebrating its 96th anniversary in Khayelitsha near Cape Town. "Down with corruption, down! Down with the Guptas down! Resign President Zuma resign! Resign President Zuma resign...resign," says 1st Deputy president of the SACP Solly Mapaila.
Mapaila says instituting disciplinary action against ANC MP Makhozi Khoza and the others is wrong. He told SACP members that threats of discipline and possible charges against these MP's will have no basis.
"It was unfortunate, that the ANC NEC, in its failure to discipline President Zuma, they shift the matter to parliamentarians and they do not give Parliamentarians a proper directive, they give them a confused directive, it could have elected its own leader."
He says the ANC leadership had failed to uphold the party's standards.
"We want accountability, we want the end to factions, but comrades to end factions that are dividing our movement right in the middle, without addressing President Zuma's role, you will not be able to come to the root cause of the problem."
At the same event, other ANC alliance partners reiterated support for the ANC presidential bid of Cyril Ramaphosa.