Johannesburg - ANC Youth League president Collen Maine has called on party members who support Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to “refuse to hand over the ANC to the dogs”, in what was a veiled attack on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Maine said Dlamini Zuma was the only hope for free education and the implementation of radical economic transformation in the country.
He was addressing hundreds of ANC members in Evaton, in the Vaal, who broke ranks with the provincial ANC decision to endorse Ramaphosa.
The members came from various branches in the ANC’s Sedibeng region to demonstrate to Dlamini Zuma, who was the main speaker, that they were endorsing her.
“You are still on the right side of history. You made a progressive decision to support Comrade Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
“We are going to face a lot of challenges for making such a decision. South Africa is faced with another junk status, because of our decision to support Comrade Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in Mangaung,” Maine said.
He added that the latest “plot” by the British and American law-enforcement agencies to investigate Dlamini Zuma was nothing but a plan by the US and Britain to choose a leader for the ANC.
“They want to tell us who must lead the ANC. We must refuse to be told who must lead us. We are going to get junk status (but) we will rise. The worst happened in the past. We defeated apartheid. We are going to rise against the junk status.
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