“In our engagement from branches, regional executive committee [REC] meetings... and interaction with other MKMVA regions within Gauteng we have unanimously agreed that we are fully behind comrade Jacob Zuma,” Ekurhuleni MKMVA secretary Bafana Mahlale told reporters in Germiston on Tuesday.

“Our approach is that of unity, continuity and change, which we believe is the most scientific way to ensure a stable ANC.” 

He said the announcement by the MKMVA’s provincial executive committee, made at the Gauteng African National Congress’s provincial general council on Sunday, to be “neutral active”, was disturbing.

“This is a very strange concept and it’s not mandated by us as regions and therefore it’s not an official position of the MKMVA in Gauteng.” 

The Gauteng ANC announced at the council that its preferred candidate for president was Zuma’s deputy Kgalema Motlanthe.

The branches’ preferred candidate list retained Zuma as president, Motlanthe as deputy president, Baleka Mbete as national chair, and Gwede Mantashe as secretary-general.

Jessie Duarte was named for the position of deputy secretary general. Deputy Correctional Services Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi was listed to replace treasurer Mathews Phosa.

Mahlale said the list was accepted by all the MKMVA’s Gauteng regions.

He said the regions had decided that Phosa had erred by coming out in support of expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, despite the mandate that the NEC would accept the sanctions.

The regions supported the development at Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, saying it was a normal thing for a president to do, and that recent media reports about it were a form of “character assassination”.

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Oct 9, 2012

MGEEZ

This is to be expected; there is no news here.
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Oct 9, 2012

DA-DBN-GUY

“Our approach is that of unity, continuity and change, which we believe is the most scientific way to ensure a stable ANC"

Just goes to show that brains do not run deep within the ruining party!
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Oct 9, 2012

candilious

@DA-DBN-GUY- Have you ever stupidity at its best



@MGEEZ- Hi there
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Oct 9, 2012

DA-DBN-GUY

candilious
@DA-DBN-GUY- Have you ever stupidity at its best

No stupidity at its best is backing Zoomer for a second term so he can rob us with impunity
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Oct 9, 2012

cornelius

The development atNkandla is " a normal thing for a president to do " ! Hahahaaa, these people are brain dead. One must assume that most of these vets probably are not paying tax, so they do not feel the wastage so acutely. The idiotocracy continues.
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Oct 9, 2012

Charley4sure

Another bunch of old losers. Fools to cry out loud. I do not understand what people see in this thing
called the president of SA. He is busy dragging the country down and they support him still. South
Africa is a mad country if Zuma wins the national elections.
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Oct 9, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

ABANC
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Oct 9, 2012

madumod

I also agree with the veterans. How do you question the president's house?. Your/Our president is going to rule again like it or not. If you don't want him just pack your bags and go{I DON'T KNOW WHERE}
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Oct 9, 2012

DA-DBN-GUY

madumod

As d u m b as mud!
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Oct 9, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

madumod - Dont worry, he will be recalled in 2015, and then dragged through dirty streets wearing nothing but his underwear. And if you dont like it, you can pack your bags and move somewhere else.
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