Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 14-09-2017
Former KwaZulu-Natal ANC chairperson, Senzo Mchunu, says he does not want his old position back and welcomes the Pietermaritzburg high court decision declaring the ANC’s 2015 elective conference unlawful.
Mchunu was forced to resign last year after losing the ANC’s provincial leadership race to Sihle Zikalala, which led to ANC branches requesting that the party’s 2015 elective conference be scrapped and the current leadership nullified.
Five aggrieved ANC members took the KZN leadership to court, saying the conference had been convened prematurely.
Mchunu told Radio Islam he supports the action by the branches.
“We are not used to individual’s standing for their rights within the ANC branches stamping their foot down and saying we are not used to that. We think if they do something it is because they belong or they are manipulated. So in reality I do want to say I support what the branches did.”
At the same time Mchunu says while he has expressed public support for deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of and president of the ANC he has also been approached by a number of his comrades to accept the nomination for the position of secretary general of the party.
“It is a matter that is left with those who think I can serve in that particular position.”
The provincial leadership has indicated it will appeal the High Court ruling.
Listen to the interview with Senzo Mchunu on Radio Islam:
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