ANC should have acted fast on Zuma’s disciplinary process: Godlimpi

Acting African National Congress (ANC) national spokesperson Zuko Godlimpi says that if the party had acted quickly in its National Disciplinary Committee processes, it would have had the leverage to talk to voters and expel former president Jacob Zuma from the party before the May elections.

His remarks come as the party’s national working committee is concluding its visit to KwaZulu-Natal to evaluate the party’s performance after a significant loss in the recent polls.

ANC National Working Committee assesses the election results in KwaZulu-Natal

Godlimpi says the narrative that the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK Party) was formed to fix the ANC might have confused voters at the polls.

“We can’t then understate the effect of former president Zuma’s formation of a political party because that was the major driver of the electorate moving that way,” he explains.

“The tagging of particular names around it saying there’s an ANC of president Ramaphosa and then there’s an ANC of president Zuma created a local narrative of confusion where voters took to the polls to vote for a political party that they said represented a version of the ANC as well,” he adds.

Godlimpi also believes that the rhetoric that the party was formed with the sole purpose of ‘fixing the ANC’ also played a critical role in the beating that the former ruling party experienced during the polls.

ANC at work to reclaim KwaZulu-Natal: Ramaphosa

‘ANC to reclaim KZN’

Earlier the ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says the party is working towards reclaiming its presence in KwaZulu-Natal, after it suffered a huge loss during the May general elections.

The ANC President led a visit to the province by the ANC’s national working committee over the weekend. The two-day engagement was aimed at assessing the state of the province’s performance after the recent elections. Ramaphosa says the ANC needs to strengthen its structures.

“This weekend we are focusing on our branches, when we have a strong ANC we can then improve the capacity of government and get the government to serve the interest of the people of South Africa. We now have a great opportunity to do so by working together with others in the Government of National Unity there is a great deal of enthusiasm even at that level and what we are now doing, we are raising the whole level of activism at the branch level.”