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Occupy Luthuli House group repeats call for Zuma to be removed

Picture credit: KEVIN SUTHERLAND
Picture credit: KEVIN SUTHERLAND

A group of ANC members planning to occupy the organisation’s headquarters‚ Luthuli House‚ on Monday‚ have reiterated their call that President Jacob Zuma be recalled and that the national executive committee resign.

The group also called on ANC stalwarts to organise to a consultative conference by December and to disband the fees commission‚ saying it undermined conference resolutions of free and quality education by 2014.

 “The ANC is losing power‚ it’s losing society. We therefore call upon members of society‚ members of the ANC and non-members to please come and join us tomorrow so that we correct these wrongs.

 “Our generation will not sit and watch this. We will never realise our generational mission of economic freedom in our lifetime if we sit and protect patronage‚ anarchy and just watch the ANC die at the hands of parasitic bourgeois‚” the group said.

 It reassured South Africans that as bleak as the situation might be‚ there were ANC members who were “decisively ready to change this trajectory”.

 “We refuse to stand silently in our corners and watch this erosion unfold‚ we refuse to be intimidated and if need be will die to save the ANC. Yet we are witnessing cowardice strangling our organisation‚ many people hiding behind the notion of organisational processes.

 “Millions of South Africans saw how abnormal we have become. We are in a state of paralysis where ANC processes have been hijacked and manipulated and robust engagement oppressed‚” the group stated.

“We appeal to revolutionary consciousness of NEC members to do the right thing. Are they really willing to go down in history as those that were hell-bent to protect an individual interests over the organisation?”

Referring to the disruption of a media briefing hosted by the National Press Club in Pretoria on Friday‚ purportedly by members of the ANC Youth League‚ the group said that this had been a blessing in disguise as “millions of South Africans saw why we are on this cause”.

 “South Africans witnessed how the ANC has deteriorated‚ South Africans saw a micro reflection of how ordinary members of the ANC are silenced and dealt with in branches. Millions of South Africans saw why we have severely lost our moral high ground and why we are fast losing respect from society and no longer leading it.

 “Millions of South Africans witnessed the implications of people being parachuted as leaders yet have no inclination of what it means to be a disciplined member of the ANC. South Africans saw why residents of Tshwane‚ particularly young people didn’t vote for the ANC. South Africans this is what we are fighting against.

 “We are fighting against institutional abnormalities‚ intellectual paucity and moral deficiency in our ranks. We are fighting to salvage what is left of this revolutionary movement started by dignified‚ astute and disciplined Africans. Africans who understood that militancy and radicalism was never tantamount to hooliganism. We are fighting against patriarchy and chauvinism that has seen many women in the ANC and overall society being isolated‚ labelled and man handled because their views were not advancing agendas‚” the group said.

 It said it was aware that people are being mobilised to come and attack the group.

“We maintain that this is a peaceful demonstration as a result of growing frustrations internally and externally. We continue to see growing frustrations expressed by many in public who seem to share the same sentiment‚” it added.

It concluded by stating that it remained “resolute that we stand with the ANC; we are children of the ANC”.

 

 

 

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