* "I won't [accept the authority of 'factions']; it's impossible. The battle lines are drawn" - Cde Solly Mapaila * Berning Ntlemeza was overheard by Cde Mluleki Ndlelanga _____
City Press Newest.png SACP will no longer stand for rot in ANC - Mapaila Hlengiwe Nhlabathi, City Press, Johannesburg, 1 June 2016 The South African Communist Party has come out guns blazing against the ANC after it effectively closed its investigation on "state capture" and said the governing party had handed power to factions that had hijacked even its national executive committee. SACP second deputy general-secretary Solly Mapaila said the party was tired of the rot in the ANC and would no longer stand for it. "What we can't allow is for factions to appropriate the name of the ANC. This is the people's movement; we will have to take steps to correct [this]." A visibly irritated Mapaila challenged ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe's announcement yesterday that the investigation was fruitless because only one out of eight people who came to his office made a handwritten submission. Mantashe's office had made a call for people who had evidence about instances of "state capture" to report it. It followed deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas' admission that he had been offered the position of finance minister by the prominent Gupta family - close friends of President Jacob Zuma. Since then some people came out publicly about the Guptas' influence over the state, including the former head of the Government Communication and Information System, Themba Maseko. Three months ago he revealed how Zuma arranged a meeting for him to "help" the Gupta family. Mapaila described the report presented by Mantashe as a "whitewash" that would compromise the ANC in the eyes of South Africans. He suggested the ANC was in denial about problems it faced, including the imposition of councillor candidates and the sidelining of others, which gave factions legitimacy. "The Gupta's corporate capture of the movement continues. The ANC can't come give us a whitewash report. They must do it with credibility if they are not afraid of anyone. They must clean corruption and factionalism in our movement," he said Mapaila warned that if the ANC continued to take people for granted by imposing decisions on people, it would be punished. "The ANC can't always think it can impose its decisions on people. If any of this is allowed ... [it will] be poisoned by wrong elements, the Guptas and so forth." Mapaila said the ANC's stone-faced approach was unfortunate and worrying. "I'm no longer looking forward to the ANC national executive committee statement but the factional statement coming out from the national executive committee of the ANC. This must be stopped," he said. "We can't be in an alliance with factions and corrupt syndicates in the organisation. The ANC must rise above factions. It must take leadership and bring authority of movement to all of us." Mapaila said the SACP and other ANC members would never accept the authority of factions. "I won't; it's impossible. The battle lines are drawn". He hoped a bilateral meeting would be convened soon so the SACP could have a frank discussion with the ANC leadership about the many things that were not going right in the governing party. A central committee starting on Friday was expected to be a heated one. Berning Ntlemeza was overheard by Mluleki Ndlelanga Meanwhile, the SACP was fighting another battle, this time with the Hawks. The party submitted a formal complaint at the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation against the unit's head, Berning Ntlemeza, for allegedly using the agency to fight political battles. The SACP accused Ntlemeza of targeting and isolating communists after he was allegedly overhead by Young Communist League Mluleki Ndlelanga discussing a mandate to deal with SACP's North West secretary Madoda Sambatha. Mapaila drew similarities between this case and the war waged against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan by the Hawks. He said the unit was acting on instructions from politicians. From: <http://city-press.news24.com/News/sacp-will-no-longer-stand-for-rot-in-anc- mapaila-20160601> http://city-press.news24.com/News/sacp-will-no-longer-stand-for-rot-in-anc-m apaila-20160601 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
