ANC dissolves Limpopo leadership
2013-03-18 14:22
Johannesburg - The ANC has dissolved its Limpopo provincial
leadership, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday.
"The PEC [provincial executive committee] has been
dissolved for displaying totally un-ANC behaviour and institutionalised
factional conduct," Mantashe told reporters in Johannesburg.
Interim structure
"[It will] be replaced with an interim structure that
will be given no more than nine months to work towards convening a provincial
conference."
A list of the provincial task team was being decided during
a meeting on Monday. A provincial general council would be held in Limpopo on
Sunday.
The decision to dissolve the PEC was taken at a three-day
national executive committee meeting in Irene, south of Pretoria at the
weekend.
Mantashe said there were a number of issues in the province,
which involved MECs and mayors who did not hold the same views as the PEC being
removed.
It showed there was no ANC leadership in the province, there
were groupings, and the ANC was paying the price.
"These issues cannot go unnoticed by the ANC," he
said.
Mantashe said dissolving the PEC would not affect government
positions.
Provincial chairperson Cassel Mathale is also the Limpopo
premier.
"The PEC is elected in the inner conference of the ANC.
That PEC is not government, so we'll dissolve the PEC not government," he
said.
ANCYL executive dissolved
The NEC also dissolved the NEC of the ANCYL.
"[This is] as a consequence of its continued
ill-disciplined behaviour that brought the organisation into disrepute on
numerous occasions," Mantashe said.
"An interim team will be selected and put in place by
the NWC [national working committee]."
Mantashe said the NEC had instructed that all processes be
stopped immediately with regard to the pending provincial and regional
conferences of the ANCYL.
Some were trying to rush these conferences so that leaders
could be elected.
"We can't have a leadership that is instant," said
Mantashe.
"There is a difference between filter coffee and
instant coffee."
Mantashe denied that dissolving the ANCYL NEC and the
Limpopo PEC was a purging exercise.
"The Mangaung conference has come and gone... we don't
go around purging people," he said.
"You cannot be flat-footed and do nothing when things
go wrong."
- SAPA
