Acting DA provincial leader Bonginkosi Madikizela was reacting to an announcement by the Western Cape ANC Provincial Executive Committee that the Dullah Omar Region, the ANC’s biggest region in the Cape, has been dissolved.
According to the ANC, it was this region’s fault that the party was beaten by a two thirds majority by the DA in last year’s municipal election.
The EFF also ate into the ANC support, which was left with 24% of the total vote.
ANC provincial secretary Faiez Jacobs said the Dullah Omar region only reached 6% of registered voters in the Cape Town Metro, and that this was proof that no work was done to reach out to voters.
On Sunday, leaders from five ANC regions, including Dullah Omar, called for the party’s provincial executive to be disbanded, claiming that it was factional and could no longer function properly.
But ANC secretary for the Dullah Omar region, Xolani Sotashe, says he is not taking this decision lying down.
“We will be appealing the PEC’s decision. I am not fired. I am still working and I will continue to serve the people in this region as I always have,” Sotashe told the Daily Voice yesterday.
The Dullah Omar region was once regarded as the stronghold of Marius Fransman, the suspended chairperson of the Western Cape ANC.
Fransman said yesterday the PEC’s decision was based on factionalism.
“They tried to take me down through a filthy lie and deceit, they abused the ANC disciplinary process in the most vicious way on me and they concluded to suspend me. I, however, have registered an appeal letter to the NEC and am patiently awaiting feedback.”
The DA’s Bonginkosi Madikizela said the ANC needs to fix itself.
“I like a challenge and lately in the Western Cape there has been nobody to engage. I do not enjoy what is happening, but they must fix their internal party disarray and try again in 12 years, at the 2029 elections,” says Madikizela.