SOUTH AFRICA: Sunday 20 August 2017 - 6:47am
The SACP's Solly Mapaila says if the ANC does not get its house in order, there will be no tripartite alliance after the ANC's elective conference in December. Photo: Gallo Images / Sowetan / Vathiswa Ruselo
JOHANNESBURG – The SACP's Solly Mapaila said if the ANC does not get its house in order, there will be no tripartite alliance after the ANC's elective conference in December.
Mapaila was in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape, where the SACP's 96th anniversary was being celebrated.
"We want to send this clear message to the ANC. Don't think that you will divide the alliance and steal the conference in December and thereafter talk unity of the alliance.
"You won't get that. We want principled unity in our struggle. We do not want factional unity. We do not want unity with the Guptas. We do not want unity with corruption," Mapaila said.
"That is why the ANC has to sort itself out. And if it is not principled unity we will not be with them.
"And they must not go and distort us and say we are not for unity. We are for always unity but revolutionary unity based on principles. Not based on dishonesty and lies which is now characteristics of what they want us to do. They will not buy us into that."
Mapaila also slammed the ANC for what he calls a misleading and confusing statement on the motion of no confidence against President Zuma.
A few days before the motion of no confidence was held in Parliament, the ANC instructed its MPs to vote against it.
The party claimed it was an attempt by opposition parties to unseat the ANC.
Mapaila argues the information in that directive was incorrect.
The motion failed, but at least 26 ANC MPs appear to have voted with the opposition.
"It was unfortunate that the ANC NEC in its failure to discipline Zuma they shift the matter to parliamentarians and they don't give parliamentarians a proper directive. They give them a confusing directive, for instance the secretary general says that motion of no confidence was less about president Zuma but more about the ANC," he said.
"It is a misleading statement. It is misleading because that motion was about removing one person the ANC would still have retained it absolute majority in parliament it would have still retained and elected its own leader. It is poor analysis," Mapaila added.