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(HERALD) Fight ANC and face the wrath of the ancestors: Zuma

Fight ANC and face the wrath of the ancestors: Zuma
Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:00

East London. - ANC president Jacob Zuma warned party members in the Eastern Cape not to let themselves be influenced by money and other members, to rise against leadership or risk the wrath of the ancestors.

Zuma addressed delegates at the province's general council at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, where members take stock of the state of the organisation.
The council, which ended yesterday was attended by 1 353 delegates from the province's 715 branches.

He addressed delegates on Thursday after they had deliberated on reports from chairperson Phumulo Masualle, secretary Lubabalo Mabuyane and treasurer Thandiswa Marawu.

President Zuma urged members to unite, warning them that a negative posture to the ANC would result in great misfortune.

"If you quarrel with the ANC, you have a problem because the ancestors turn their back on you," Zuma said to applause from the crowd.

"You will die a political natural death . . . And that's why no matter how you feel, don't fight the ANC.

"No matter how long it takes, your death will come. And you know how it is with natural death, some will go in middle age, some a little later in life, and others die very young," he added to even more applause and laughter from delegates.

Zuma also urged members not to allow themselves to be pulled into divisive camps that meet in the "wilderness", saying they must "not be members of other members".

"Money is the root of all evil. You must not allow money to destroy this organisation," Zuma said, adding members should be exemplary at all times because all eyes are on the ruling party. However, he also commended the delegates, saying they were more unified now than he had seen at the 2009 elective conference at Riverpark in East London.

"There are few provinces that when they are right, the entire ANC is right. But if there are some things that are wrong, it looks like the entire ANC has things wrong. The Eastern Cape is one of them," he said.

In a political report on Tuesday, Masualle traced the divisions in the province back to this conference, as well as the 2007 Polokwane national conference. These divisions, he added, had posed a huge stumbling block to development. Echoing Zuma's sentiment on the province's importance to the ANC, Masualle said the current members betrayed the province's "rich legacy of struggle" as well as those who helped create it.

"We learnt very harshly that where there is political instability and infighting, the important task of transforming society, making better the lives for our people, is postponed indefinitely," he said. - City Press.

Labels: ANC, DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (SOUTH AFRICA), JACOB ZUMA

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