The African National Congress (ANC) said it was still waiting for the real masters of the new political formation, the Congress of the People, (COP) to show their faces, Fikile Mbalula, ANC national executive member, said on Sunday.
”We know that Terror [Lekota] and them are just pawns, who are basically being used and these people who said to be resigning every week are not the real people,” Mbalula, the former leader of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), said.
He told journalists in Bloemfontein the party was still waiting ”for the masters to basically come out of the party”.
Mbalula was speaking during a media briefing the ANC called in support of former ANCYL NEC member Saki Mofokeng, who denied a newspaper report that he was leaving the ANC for the breakaway formation.
”The recent article as published in the Sunday newspaper about me being part of the breakaway group from the ANC is very unfortunate and entirely not true,” Mofokeng said.
Mbalula said, unlike Mofokeng, there were many people in the ANC ”polishing their shoes” whom the party knew would leave the organisation.
He said the resignation of so-called ANC members had not ”shaken” the party, saying it had thousands of cadres and was ”intact”.
”We are not shaken, we are unbreakable and we are indestructible.”
”Some of these people leaving the ANC, we do not know them, because they become famous because they are leaving, they are just unknown people from nowhere.”
Mbalula said the media have made unknown people ”real people” in the face of ANC supporters, but history would judge them if they have credibility or any thing to offer in the new political landscape.
He said the ANC would contest everything that had been stolen from the movement, which also included the new name of the breakaway movement.
”All we asking from them is to please leave our colours, leave our organisation, leave our colourful history, the African National Congress,” Mbalula said. – Sapa