The ANC split widens even further!

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ANC splits start to show in WCape

The long-delayed ANC Western Cape provincial conference starts in Cape Town on Wednesday at the same time that delegates to a rival conference are being registered at a sports centre in Langa township.

The split was triggered when organisers of the conference, to be held at the International Convention Centre (ICC), belatedly notified branches that their delegates should register at a venue in the Nyanga township on the Cape Flats on Tuesday.

Until then, branches that had accused provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha and his supporters of falsifying membership numbers and excluding branches that did fully not support the promotion of Jacob Zuma as a future president of the country, planned a protest march on the ICC.

"But when they made it extremely difficult, even impossible, for some delegates to register by moving the registration out to Nyanga, we decided to hold a separate conference," one of the Langa organisers said.

He and other organisers wished to remain anonymous until after the conference, which they said would lodge a formal complaint that the conference at the ICC was "totally corrupt".

Some 600 delegates from 39 ANC branches throughout the province were expected to attend the ICC gathering at which provincial chair, James Ngculu, was expected to present a report.

He was then expected to travel to Langa to address that conference.

Ngculu, an ally of axed Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool, heads the faction that has been at loggerheads with Skwatsha over the past year.
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and so the cracks appear my friends! This is indeed good news! :)
 
No boramk, read the article! 'The ANC' is signing up people attending the 'ANC WC conference' (a calendar event) at one venue, and at the same time at another location 'the ANC' is doing the same thing.

Which conference is the 'right' conference? Who has the legitimacy?

Split you political whore, split!!!
 
I couldn't agree with you more Debbie... def needs to happen and the sooner, the better...
 
Garyvdh said:
and so the cracks appear my friends! This is indeed good news! :)
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I think it's inevitable that there will be a split.

Eight years ago the ANC was a liberation movement. Since then they have been very successful at two things:
1) Creating a large black middle class
2) Transforming from a liberation movement to a political party

Combine those two things and you get a political party which is unable to meet the needs of all the people. The ANC is unable to represent both the left and the right anymore. Just like every other mature democracy we're splitting down the middle into a left wing and a right wing.

The left representing the working class / labour organisations and the right representing the middle class / big business.

What we have just witnessed is a change of goverment from Conservative to Labour, except it all happened within the sphere of the ANC and that has exposed the divisions.

Now that the ANC is now the left wing / Labour goverment there is a huge gap for a right wing / Conservative party to form, and I believe it will.

I hope that it does happens as it would mean we had finally moved from a racially based society to a class based society.
 
supersunbird said:
Nope, according to me, communists are conservative. Oppressive, strick rules and all that
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I think you're pretty much on your own with that one.

The term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789. The nobility, members of the Second Estate, generally sat to the right. In the successive legislative assemblies, monarchists who supported the Ancien Régime were commonly referred to as rightists because they sat on the right side. It is still the tradition in the French National Assembly for the representatives to be seated left-to-right (relative to the Assembly president) according to their political alignment.
As new social issues arose, right wing views continued to be concerned with keeping "traditional" values (often religious values), which has more recently been expressed, for example, as emphasis on the preservation of individual and corporate rights through constraints on government power. The values and policy concerns of the right vary in different countries and eras. Also, individual right wing politicians and thinkers often have individual priorities. There are no universally accepted objective criteria to determine which of two sets of beliefs or policies is more right-wing.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics
 
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boramk said:
Just to be clear:

Left wing = capitlists
Right wing = communists?
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lol... you got that back to front my friend! :D

Left Wing (Communism)----------------------------------Moderate-------------------------------------Right Wing (Nationalism)
Marxists > Socialists > Unionists > Democrats > Moderates > Capitalists > Conservatives > Republicans > Fundamentalists > (Nazis)
SACP, AZAPO, COSATU, --- ANC----(Old PFP)---DP-------(EX-NNP)-----ACDP---FF--(Old NP)--(Old CP)--(Old HNP)-----AWB

Some of you might disagree with the order slightly... but that is how I see it.
 
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Garyvdh said:
lol... you got that back to front my friend! :D

Left Wing (Communism)----------------------------------Moderate-------------------------------------Right Wing (Nationalism)
Marxists > Socialists > Unionists > Democrats > Moderates > Capitalists > Conservatives > Republicans > Fundamentalists > (Nazis)
SACP, AZAPO, COSATU, --- ANC----(Old PFP)---DP-------(EX-NNP)-----ACDP---FF--(Old NP)--(Old CP)--(Old HNP)-----AWB

Some of you might disagree with the order slightly... but that is how I see it.
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Thats what I thought
 
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