Broadcast Type: News; A political analyst from the North West University, Professor André Duvenage, says the African National Congress in the province is facing challenges dealing with disgruntled members.
a political analyst from west university the north professor andré duvenage says the african national congress in the province is facing predicament of a dealing with aggrieved members the party he says needs to find address issues a way to affecting its members rather than them to opposition losing parties this comes after a n c councillors nine in lichtenburg based ditsong bottler local municipality resigned seemingly joining the umkhonto wesizwe party and later retracted their resignation councillors the wanted the party to deal with others alleged amongst political interference at the municipality regional by and provincial executive members and poor service delivery our reporter zeblon moyane has more nxuba the local municipality has been struggling instability with political two years ago the provincial government decided to dissolve the council that was dysfunctional and had failed to execute its constitutional obligations by a election was held but no party an received outright majority however a collision was led council established the municipality was later mandatory placed under recovery plan as it was pay its unable to employees the municipality also submit failed to its annual financial statements twenty for the twenty twenty twenty three audit period while in the ditsong botha problems municipality continued to deepen nine disgruntled anc councillors sent their resignation to the a n c letter n e c they threatened to join the mk party if the a n c did not issues resolve their sabc news has seen mk party membership forms with their names however c the a n in the province says the councillors since withdrawn have their resignation the provincial executive committee officials met with them together with the of convenor national executive committee deployees to comrade the province kgomo we met them last week luthuli house in to discuss this matter but we met the entire caucus not only the nine we met the entire caucus engaged with them deliberated on the issues that affect of the caucus the council itself and we can confirm that out of that meeting they have withdrawn from that intention opposition parties say in the municipality they are not surprised to see n c councillors a attempting to defer to another party due to lack of stability a within the n c this municipality is in shambles we've got a division within the c a n and it's really it's really holding us as a municipality where after the by twenty two by twenty election we thought what we you know could possibly fix the place but as things are going service delivery an all time has hit low due to anc political infighting which can cannot be resolved by anyone but the a good n c there is no good work relationship within council has lost decorum itself it from time to time see on social media you you see on the news that they fight each other physically decorum disregarding and systems of council itself so municipality that really where it a good is it's not in situation they kind uphold good governance a political analyst from north-west university professor andré duvenage says the a n c an enormous is facing predicament the a n c is between a rock and hard place making right decision the in terms of effective and functional government may cost them the support base a in council that's already a council it restabilise may the environment politically n c but for the a in the province it's a choice of action between people that are contributing the aims of to government in terms governance of good service delivery and on the other action side against corrupt members and hopefully the a n c will act in an appropriate way residents continue to bear the brunt calling for service and are delivery meanwhile the c in the province a n says it is in talks with other political parties in the council to form a government of local unity the hope of with stabilising the situation municipality in the and provide services to the community mania zeblon sabc news luxembourg