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ANC Veterans League’s Mavuso Msimang resigns from the ANC.
After more than 60 years, Mavuso Msimang, the deputy president of the African National Congress Veterans’ League (ANCVL), has left the organization.
Point of View with Phemelo Motene spoke to Political Analyst, Dr Fikile Vilakazi who gave an analysis on the latest developments.
Listen to the full conversation here:
Fikile Mbalula, the secretary-general, received Msimang’s resignation letter after the latter chastised the veterans for abandoning the party’s campaign. Msimang gave a somber account of the situation in South Africa in the letter, citing it as one of the reasons he left his political home.
“Letter of resignation It is with profound sadness that I inform you of my decision to terminate my membership of the African National Congress (ANC). I have served the organisation loyally and diligently for over six decades. For several years now, the ANC has been wracked by endemic corruption, with devastating consequences on the governance of the country and the lives of poor people, of whom there continue to be so many. Of course, the ANC did not invent corruption.”
“We inherited a state that was morally bankrupt and that was built on the most profound forms of corruption. When we took over government in 1994, we had the moral high ground, and the conviction that we would be able to root out the old-boy networks that had benefitted from, and strangled, the apartheid economy. Yet, three decades later, the ANC’s own track record of corruption is a cause of great shame. The corruption we once decried is now part of our movement’s DNA. This has had dire consequences for the most vulnerable members of our society.”
ANC Veterans League’s Mavuso Msimang
READ THE FULL RESIGNATION LETTER HERE:
Struggle stalwart Dr Mavuso Msimang resigns from the ANC with immediate effect. pic.twitter.com/evjMMBGpOg
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