Faizel Patel – 10/05/2021
Wits University professor Ivor Sarakinsky says it is unlikely that suspended African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Ace Magashule will apologise for sending party president Cyril Ramaphosa a suspension letter.
The ANC national executive committee (NEC) ordered Magashule to apologise for his actions of serving the letter.
Ramaphosa made the announcement on Monday as he spelt out the outcome of the party’s three-day special national executive meeting.
Speaking to Radio Islam, Sarakinsky says Magashule’s has a “game plan” to push the buttons of the ANC.
“Probably the game plan from Magashule’s is to push the ANC to discipline him and to suspend him again and maybe even expel him through a disciplinary process. That enables him to claim martyr status in terms of political persecution and that might give him more of a defence than actually operating within ANC structures.”
Sarakinsky says Ramaphosa has asserted his authority in the NEC.
“It was always divided and ambiguous and events of late have shown that he’s been able to push the NEC closer towards his position. But it doesn’t mean unity and it doesn’t mean that people who were quite vehemently opposed to him have suddenly change their views.”
Sarakinsky says former president Thabo Mbeki’s comment that the ANC on the brink of collapse is partly a tactic and old politics trick in order to get party members to cooperate with each other for the benefit of the movement.
Listen to the interview with Ivor Sarakinsky
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