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Original Post Date: 2008-12-16 Time: 06:00:10 Posted By: Jan
ANC leaders meet on Wednesday to deal with the crises facing the ruling party, including a tougher reprimand against Western Cape chairperson Mcebisi Skwatsha, who is blamed for the electoral mess that lost the organisation several seats in last week’s by-elections.
Some even want Skwatsha and the rest of the provincial executive fired for “failing in their duties and bringing the party into disrepute”.
This is after the ANC lost an attempt to contest 12 of the 27 by-elections in the Western Cape after the party missed the registration deadline.
A national executive committee (NEC) member anonymously said that the organisation should also shoulder the blame for allowing Skwatsha to remain provincial leader, despite his failures.
He was referring to the removal of former Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool while Skwatsha was left untouched despite fierce factional fights that have divided and weakened the provincial organisation.
Skwatsha’s cellphone was on voice mail and the Cape Times left a message for him.
The one-day NEC crisis meeting will also focus on the party’s responses to other crises and its preparations for the elections.
It was felt, during the national working committee (NWC) meeting on Monday, that the organisation had been “reactive and defensive” when faced with major political setbacks.
This includes its Electoral Court application to force the Independent Electoral Commission to accept its dozen candidates for the by-elections, despite missing the deadline.
The ANC lost the case, and it immediately rushed to the Constitutional Court.
The party also “did not know what to do” after it lost another High Court case to bar Cope from using the name Congress of the People.
This led to secretary-general Gwede Mantashe lashing out at the two black judges, in frustration, calling them apartheid apologists.
The NWC was said to be frustrated with the fact that the ANC’s agenda seemed to be driven by Cope’s activities.
The legal battles, the defections, the electoral mess and other issues have caught the ANC “unawares”, forcing the party to take a defensive route and creating the impression that Cope was a “well organised major party”, a Luthuli House staffer admitted on Monday.
“This has confused our members and potential supporters,” said the staffer, who refused to be named because he was “not a spokesperson”.
But one NWC member said they would come up with a plan and “strategic mission” to give “direction” to its members.
ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus could not be reached for comment.