‘I will discipline them. It will not be nice’ – Mbalula on ill-disciplined ANC members

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Cape Town — African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, said ill-disciplined members of the party will face a disciplinary hearing.

Mbalula was speaking at the Peter Mokaba Memorial Lecture in Khayelitsha on Friday and he said the party was looking to revive and rebuild the organisation. He said the party’s renewal process was painful as the step-aside rule was discussed, IOL reported.

“If you are in the wrong, you will be dealt with by the renewal. Discipline is not a lip service. A person who leads the organisation and does not have discipline will be sent to disciplinary proceedings,” Mbalula said.

Mbalula told the Youth League members that there would be many ill-disciplined members that would be sent to the disciplinary proceedings/

“Watch out in January how many I will send. I will discipline them. It will not be nice,” he said.

Earlier this week, Mbalula said ANC veteran Tony Yengeni will face a disciplinary hearing for his public criticisms of the organisation that have brought the party into disrepute,

“Tony Yengeni will be charged. I informed him through an SMS, and I have called him. We will charge him. We will bring him before the disciplinary processes of the ANC so that he can explain himself in terms of the membership of the ANC. For many other statements he has made, we will charge him,” Mbalula said.

Mbalula said he did not need any authorisation from the National Executive Committee (NEC) to send people to the disciplinary committee.

“We must be disciplined. You can’t have an organisation with members that are opposition within,” he said in an apparent reference to Yengeni for his late-night tweets. 

Mbalula also said the ANC national leadership was united.

“Our unity is not unity of convenience. It is unity of purpose. We don’t unite for wrong things. We must not unite with wrongness in the organisation,” he said.

The event was about honouring the legacy of Peter Mokaba, a former ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president who was known as the “Lion of the North.”

“He is the one who was militant and an organic intellectual. He was a soldier of uMkhonto weSizwe and our leader of youth in South Africa and led diligently, militantly, and radically the South African Youth Congress and later the ANCYL. He was an ex-Robben Islander. He taught us the importance of political education in our ranks,” he said,

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