Mashatile is a victim of DA‘s quest to capture and destroy the ANC

By: Mojaki Manoto

Recently Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen has been on a relentless mission to discredit, sully the good name and assassinate the character of ANC second-in-command Paul Mashatile. This has not been an individual quest but represents a concerted effort, from Stellenbosch and imperial forces to dislodge those ANC members who are in disagreement with the planned marriage between the ANC and the DA.

John Steenhuisen has been touted as the deputy president in an illusionary coalition with the ANC that has been concocted from Stellenbosch. He sees Paul Mashatile as an adversarial opponent who must be liquidated since they are competing for the “same position.”

The campaign to leak information about Paul Mashatile’s house and his association or friendship with businessman Edwin Sodi is all choreographed to result in Steenhuisen replacing Mashatile. Even the recent parliamentary questions are another chapter in that reactionary campaign episode.

One of the main reasons for the exodus of ANC members to join MK Party is as a result of their rejection of the plan to hand over the ANC to the DA under the guise of a coalition. Mashatile is seen as one person who stands in sharp and pointed contradiction to this sellout Stellenbosch deal that has been consummated with a few leaders in the ANC.

We have been treated to a spectacle of unprincipled flirtations and courtship between the ANC and the DA with sections of the ANC such as the Veteran’s League mouthing and displaying a romantic posture towards the DA. What is even strange is that such a planned marriage between the DA and the ANC is spoken about in dark corridors without any organisational resolution to that effect.

This plan is part of a quest to weaken the ANC and usher in a new multiracial and neo-liberal organisation. The imperialists and the Stellenbosch mafias’ desire to reconstitute the ANC as it is currently structured. They want to create their new ANC which will do away with its long culture, history and the tradition of resistance.

They want a centre-right ANC that will be an amalgam of all liberal leaders without any history in the resistance struggle. This new ANC will privatise and auction state assets to white DA investors. The failed Takatso deal is but one such a glaring example.

A section of the ANC has bought into this plan to hand over the ANC to the DA. This is the highest betrayal ever contemplated since the formation of the ANC in 1912. The purveyors of this real state and ANC capture will all be handsomely compensated for accomplishing this evil mission.

Imagine an ANC government that will be co-governing with Helen Zille whose social media posts about white supremacy are legendary? Imagine policies such as BBEE, the land, ownership of mines , nationalisation of the Reserve Bank will no longer see the light of day?

Imagine co-governing with the DA that has written a letter to the US effectively undermining our own sovereignty? Imagine co-governing with the DA that has given its unserved support to the racist state of Israel which is embroiled in genocidal crimes?

Mashatile ‘s sin is that he has refused to hand over the ANC and would rather opt to strengthen the alliance or front of the oppressed African organisations. Mashatile ‘s relations with EFF leader Julius Malema causes the Stellenbosch mafia sleepless nights. So the DA and Stellenbosch must dictate who we must be friends with.

That is why they are funding and handsomely sponsoring micky mouse parties that mushroom daily such as Rise Mzansi to reduce the ANC’s majority. They fear that an ANC with Mashatile at the helm in an alliance with African progressive organisations will bring back the land to our people since it will get a two-thirds majority. This unity will bring back the dignity of the African person.

The ANC is facing its most critical test in its entire history. The Fifth Column are operating with insidious determination to reverse the gains of our struggle. There is an internal ideological war that is brewing with a section of the organisation that have signed a fustian pact with the devil. On the other hand, there is a section that is resisting, kicking and screaming wanting to retain the real and genuine ANC. Mashatile ‘s sin is refusing to sell out the birth-right of our people under a new baaskap of the DA.

* Mojaki Manoto is an independent researcher