MK veterans to request meeting with ANC
Former senior members of Umkhonto we Sizwe will request a meeting with the top leadership of the ANC, as part efforts to help solve the ruling party's problems.
The MK vets briefed the media in Lilliesleaf, following this weekend's special council in Johannesburg.
ANC veteran Siphiwe Nyanda says they refuse to sit back and watch, while the ANC is destroying itself.
"It is incumbent upon us to try to intervene before the ANC dies. We can't watch while our organization is going through this pain," he says.
Nyanda says they will meet with the ANC leadership to present the resolutions taken at the council, because they believe some in the 'Top 6' would be willing help save the ANC.
He says while the council did not discuss the succession battle in the ANC, it is clear that the leadership race in the ruling party is causing division.
"We want to propose that before any national consultative conference, to put in place measured to avoid these activities (such as slates) which help to divide the ANC further. Our consideration is for the unity of the African National Congress, and not the division of the ANC through some of these things that are happening," says Nyanda.
Nyanda says there is a trend where people are excluded from positions because they do not form part of a particular grouping, and this has to come to an end if the ANC is to remain in power.
"So it's us as members of the ANC engaging with the leadership so that we make them aware of what we think about everything. We are not just going to give them a report, we are going to discuss with them how we can participate in the structures of the ANC," says Nyanda.