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Polokwane Conference No. 87 January 2008 POLOKWANE CONFERENCE- Searchlight on Highlights 1. The Rowdiness at the Conference 2. “My Comrade, my brother….my Leader.” 3. Purge in the National Executive Committee 4./…. 1 4. Dr Dube and Zuma 5. “Umshini Wami” 6. Large number of Votes for the NEC does not always mean Power 7. Newly elected NEC gives Pride of Place to Fraudsters and Thieves 8. A Plague on both their Houses APDUSA VIEWS e.mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 8888 website: www.apdusaviews .co.za CUMBERWOOD 3235 2 1. The Rowdiness Toward Senior ANC members The rowdiness exhibited by a large section of the ANC conference towards Minister Lekota was a measure of the hostility the Zuma supporters showed towards the Mbeki faction symbolised by Lekota as its chief spokesman in the battle against the Zuma faction. According to Mbeki, the image that behaviour “conveyed to the country, the continent and the world was a bad image.”1 In his closing speech, Zuma described the behaviour as “a negative”. According to Mbeki: “The matter was addressed and delegates were told that their behaviour was unacceptable and indeed the behaviour improved.”2 Those of us viewing these “disturbing” scenes on television would have noticed that that behaviour was being exhibited in the very presence of Jacob Zuma. The question on everybody lips is: Why did Jacob Zuma not get up from his seated position and direct/instruct /request his supporters to stop behaving in that unacceptable manner? There appears to be only one answer: It was orchestrated rowdiness which had the full approval of Jacob Zuma! Postscript. After Jacob Zuma was served with a very detailed charge sheet and was offered his day in court ( in truth 4 whole months of Court days), the Natal leader of COSATU, Zet Lizipho, made the following inflammatory statement to the “Sowetan”3: 1 Mail & Guardian online 24th December 2007 2 ibid 3 A daily newspaper with its main circulation in Gauteng 3 “People are now angry. This time there will be blood spilt in the courtroom…We will not be held responsible for their anger.” The last sentence is a clumsy effort to palm off the blame on unnamed and anonymous “People.” There can be no interpretation of that statement other than it is a threat to the independence of the judiciary. Its purpose is to either instill terror in the judge who tries the case and the prosecution team or to persuade the government to drop the charges. How does the president of the ANC respond? Does he condemn the inflammatory statement? Does he condemn the maker of the statement and call for discipline to be imposed on him? None of the above. Instead, he appealed for calm on the grounds that “we don’t want another Kenya here.” Where does Kenya come into the debate? By conjuring the spectre of Kenya Zuma is making an indirect threat. He is in effect saying: “We can have a Kenya here, but we do not want another Kenya here.” One gets the distinct impression that we see being re-enacted before us the old trick of “bad cop, good cop.” The “bad cop” threatens to beat up the detainee. The “good cop” befriends the detainee and succeeds in extracting the information! So Mr Zuma, stop playing the “good cop” in order to garner praise and gratitude. If you are serious, condemn Lizipho in the strongest possible terms and use your position in the tripartite alliance to GET HIM EXPELLED from Cosatu and from the ANC. After all Lizipho is not a child or a novice. He is the leader of Cosatu in the Province of Kwa Zulu Natal. ################################################################### 4 2. “MY COMRADE, MY FRIEND AND BROTHER, INDEED, MY LEADER!” These were the moving words uttered by ANC president Jacob Zuma in his closing speech at the Polokwane Conference. They were directed to President Mbeki. Never have such moving words been uttered with greater insincerity. This was the “statesmanlike” Zuma showing the ANC, the country and the world that as a mature politician, he was determined to heal the wound that had afflicted the ANC and which divided it from top to bottom. According to him, you cannot have “a Zuma camp and an Mbeki camp. There is only one ANC. No one has won, no one has lost.” As for there being “no Zuma camp” and no “Mbeki camp” and as for saying “no one lost and no one won”, once again there is nothing to beat that insincerity. At the first meeting after Conference to elect the National Executive Committee (NEC), there was a merciless purge of the pro- Mbeki or anti -Zuma members elected at the previous conference. Some 25 cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and premiers were unceremoniously discarded. Political analysts contend that a fair process would have been to nominate members on the basis of percentage of support each faction had at the conference. The Zuma faction won 60% of the votes and 40% went to the Mbeki faction. The Mbeki faction ought to have received 32 members and 48 for the Zuma faction. The actual position is that the Mbeki faction probably have received only 16 members which is 20% only. It does not augur well for the country when leaders say what they do not mean. There is far too much double talk, far too much dissembling. The ability to engage in complex communication which appears to be unique to human beings is being thoroughly abused. 5 Why cannot people say what they mean? Why must they say things they do not believe in and say it only for the sake of form or to lull their opponents into complacency? Of course there is a Zuma camp and there is an Mbeki camp. Of course the Zuma camp won and the Mbeki camp lost. All who were at the conference know that, as do all others who watched the news on television or read the newspapers or listened to the radio. Is it not the truth that when Zuma proclaims: “My comrade, my friend and brother, indeed, my leader” he is really saying: “I got you at last you bloody…..” ################################################### 3. The purge of the national executive committee In theory the National Executive Committee of the ANC is the most powerful body in the ANC apart from the once every-five- - years-conference. In practice matters are more or less decided upon by powerful groups outside the NEC. At the NEC meetings those decisions are either rubber stamped by the NEC or debated if there is more than one power group which has taken decisions. At the end of the Polokwane Conference there was a scramble to assert that there are no factions in the ANC; that the ANC is one, and that once a leader is elected, members who wanted another leader voted in would then support the person elected. 6 Zuma after humiliating Mbeki at the jousts then in a melodramatic fashion described Mbeki as his friend, comrade, “indeed my leader”. The first test of reconciliation and healing was the voting for the composition of the NEC. If the battle was truly over and that there was one ANC, then the membership of the NEC would be non-factional or at least the Mbeki faction be allocated a percentage commensurate with the votes received by the Mbeki faction, namely 40%! In actual fact they received only 20% of the members of the NEC. Initially, when the brains were still giddy with victory, there was even talk of a bloody purge. Persons like Trevor Manuel, Joel Neshithenze and Ramaphosa were omitted. Then a measure of sanity was restored. Omitting Trevor Manuel’s name was going to do little to calm the already jittery markets. At the end of the process, there was very little left of Mbeki’s people in the NEC. About 30 cabinet ministers, premiers and long serving influential members were left out. ############################################ 4. IS ZUMA LIKE DUBE4? At a Zuma victory celebration held on the Durban beachfront, Obed Mlaba,5 the Mayor of Durban made, inter alia, the following statements: 4 Dr John Langalibalele Dube the first President of the South African National Native Congress, later renamed the African National Congress. 5 Readers will recall Mlaba as Chairperson of the Technicon Council of the Mangosuthu Buthelezi Technicon agreeing with the racialism hurled against members of the Indian community by racialist Professor Aaron Ndlovu (See Apdusa Views No 81) 7 “We just have to celebrate before Christmas because this is our victory.” He went on to say that the event reminded him of the formation of the ANC and the election of its first president Dr John Langalibalele Dube – a liberator, activist and a man of the people. Then he said: “Zuma is like Dube….” The question is: What was Dube like? A liberator, activist and a man of the people? Let us see! It is true that he was the first president of a body called the South African Native National Congress ( later named the African National Congress) It was formed specifically to plead with British imperialism about the very oppression sanctioned by Britain. In 1917 Dr Dube was ousted as president of the SANNC because he accepted “the principle of segregation as it can be fairly and practically carried out.”6 The SANNC or ANC in Natal was “bedeviled by factions”. The one faction was part of the national organisation. The other, controlled by Dube, remained outside the main body. It was only on Dube’s death in 1946 that the Natal Native Congress7 was dissolved.
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