Eastern Cape ANC Says National Leadership 'Rightwing'

Farrel — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:22:00 -0500

The Eastern Cape is the spiritual home of the ANC. It’s where it was born, grew to prominence and also where a lot of it’s current leadership, including Thabo Mbeki (but not Jacob Zuma) can trace their roots. Which is why it might be a bit disconcerting for the ANC national leadership to learn that the ANC Eastern Cape provincial is about to adopt a position paper stating that party is being taken over by “rightwing forces hostile to transformation”.

This might be the result of Zuma’s supporters using the provinces as a means to put pressure on the national ANC leadership, although the Eastern Cape ANC is keeping a door open for a “compromise candidate”. This also comes as some in the tripartite alliance claim that the executive branch has too much power, although as SomeAmongus points out, this was power that was seemingly given up freely when it suited them. COSATU have also decided that they don’t like the proportional representation electoral system anymore and would prefere a constituency based approach to be integrated into the process. That’s probably one of the few times COSATU and Tonly Leon agree on something.

Politics.za: Eastern Cape ANC Says National Leadership 'Rightwing'

Eastern Cape ANC Says National Leadership 'Rightwing'