She said it was clearly the responsibility of the ANC as a brand to own up to these
directives which placed the moral character of the organisation into disrepute and
“more importantly, plunged the country into crisis”. In conclusion let me quote Anton
Lembede the first ANC Youth League President who said the following in 1945 at age
31: “We need young men and women of high moral stamina and integrity; of courage
and vision. This means we must develop a type of youth – not pleasure loving,
frivolous, dissolute, light minded type – but youth of stoical discipline, trained to
endure suffering and difficulties. It is only this type of youth that will achieve national
liberation of the African people.”
So, it is now, with a heavy heart, that I must say, that this is no longer the ANC that
I know. This ANC is alien and corrupt. This is not Madiba’s, Chief Albert Luthuli’s and
O.R. Tambo’s ANC. THAT is the ANC that I am.
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I want to free myself from the ugly, nasty, vicious, factional, inherently corrupt and
unprincipled contestation for positions at the 2017 ANC conference. I reject this alien
ANC’s mission. I reject its leaders. I understand that the branches of the ANC who
elected me, in absentia, to represent their interests in parliament, would have
expected me to finish my five-year term. I want to apologize to the branches. It is not
out of disrespect. As you have seen, I have been persecuted. You have also seen that
the new alien and corrupt ANC wants me out as I refuse to protect corrupt leadership.
I refuse to be fired, by unprincipled, immoral leaders and will not give them the power
to make a mockery of the importance of the rule of law. Let me also take this
opportunity to make it unequivocally clear that I am not going to the DA.
I am not leaving the ANC. I am ONLY leaving the alien and corrupt ANC. The values
of the old ANC, Madiba’s ANC, still lives within me; and I will give it life again, one
way or the other; for the sake of those who went before, and for the sake of those to
come.
“Audit firm KPMG is suffering the consequences of their amoral, unprofessional and
unethical conduct. The ANC must face the consequences of their actions.”
Simply put, said Khoza, “The ANC collective leadership officially and totally removed
the sense of wrong and right in matters that pertain to the governance of the
Republic.”
She said those members of Parliament who sought to be truthful and followed their
moral conscience, were persecuted.
In response, South Africans should exercise their right by voting the ANC out of power.
“The ANC is not a religion.”
Khoza believed that the ANC was no longer the movement but something else.
She said the ANC, particularly in a democratic society, could be voted in, and voted
out.
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The country was going through the worst moral leadership crisis since the dawn of
democracy, said Khoza.
Stepping Stones
Copyright © 2010 Bryan Britton
First edition published by Reach Publishers 2010
ISBN 9780620468688
https://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Stepping-Stones
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