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Mavuso Msimang backtracks on resignation after ANC agrees to exclude leaders implicated in state capture

The ANC has announced that veteran Mavuso Msimang has rescinded his resignation as the party agrees to exclude from 2024 parliamentary lists members who have been implicated in State Capture and have not been cleared by the Integrity Committee.
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The ANC has indicated that Mavuso Msimang will continue serving the party and after a meeting on Tuesday 12 December facilitated by the Veterans League. 

In a statement issued by the governing party on Thursday, the organisation also noted that its Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula regrets utterances he made about the Msimang in the public domain.

“In this regard, we are pleased that comrade Msimang has agreed to withdraw his resignation and will continue to speak up against any malfeasance impacting the interests of society.

"The ANC will continuously seek the wise counsel of the elders of the ANC in whose footsteps we walk. The SG regrets that he made comments that impugned the integrity of Cde Msimang, suggesting that he was vulnerable to taking a bribe from a newly established political formation, or, for that matter, any other source,” party spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri said.

The ANC has also committed to deal swiftly with ill-disciplined members including those implicated in state capture.

“In addressing the concerns of ANC members, and, indeed all South Africans, the leadership of the ANC will act with urgency to address the unethical behaviour and ill-discipline of members, including leaders of the party.

“We are determined that only members whose reputations are beyond reproach will be included in our list of candidates for Parliament and Provincial Legislatures. This means that those implicated by the Zondo Commission will not be included in our lists if their names have not been cleared by the ANC Integrity Commission,” the statement reads.

Read more in Daily Maverick: ANCYL leader adds his disapproval over party veteran Mavuso Msimang’s resignation

Mbalula last week said the veterans were campaigning against the party instead of using their direct line to the ANC’s leadership to discuss their concerns. 

Msimang then sent his resignation letter last week to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and his assistant and within hours it was leaked on ANC WhatsApp groups.

In the letter, Msimang raised a myriad of issues which the party had failed to tackle. This includes the party allowing its members implicated in State Capture to be nominated to serve in Parliament and provincial legislatures in next year’s elections.

Mbalula then accused Msimang of having submitted his resignation via the media and said the former Veterans’ League deputy president was likely to join outgoing FirstRand CEO Roger Jardine’s new party, Change Starts Now.

Read more in Daily Maverick: ANC veteran of 60 years Mavuso Msimang ‘painfully’ severs ties, tenders devastating resignation

To which Msimang responded via a video. Msimang denied he was joining Change Starts Now, but said Jardine had consulted him before the party was formed.

“Well, first of all,” he said, “I have not joined any party, and secondly, it’s insulting to suggest that I accepted a bribe. Another deliberate lie of Mbalula’s is that I announced my resignation from ANC through the media. He knows very well that around 3.50pm on December 6, I sent an email to himself and to his PA, exclusively at Luthuli House.

“It’s only when I was called by [the] media that I responded to confirm the veracity of this … letter. I had to control the narrative of my resignation. It’s really a pity that the ANC has a person like Mbalula as its secretary-general. It’s an embarrassment.”

Attempts to get an immediate response from Msimang were not successful at the time of publication. DM

This is a developing story and may be updated.

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davidramol 14 December 2023 10:52 PM

The more things change , the more they stay the same

Just another 14 December 2023 11:24 PM

After being heaped with praise, respect and integrity, he proves he has none. Copout. Just another ANC thing again.

Pierrejrous 15 December 2023 03:03 AM

So election season has arrived I see…

Ben Harper 15 December 2023 05:09 AM

Riiiiggghhhtttttttt

Laurence Erasmus 15 December 2023 06:12 AM

To place the decision of the ANC integrity commission above that of the Zondo Commission is an affront to all law abiding citizens. If those who Zondo has fingered want to clear their name then they must take Zondo on review, present their cleansing evidence and have an independent judge rule. Anything less will just be a fudge!

Denise Smit 15 December 2023 06:17 AM

"It is reality a pity that the ANC has a person like Mbalula as its secretary- general. It's an embarrasment." What happened about that words of yours Mr Msimang. Do you want to make sure you get a big ANC funeral? You have to walk the talk, because we see you

Mark Hammick 15 December 2023 06:30 AM

The spine of a jelly fish - such bend over morals

r***s@g***.com 15 December 2023 07:01 AM

Baaaahhh,humbug.

virginia crawford 15 December 2023 07:03 AM

Kind of spineless really. If you resign over a single issue, okay. but that's not how the letter read. The ANC is corrupt and excluding a few top crooks doesn't change that.

Grenville Wilson 15 December 2023 07:33 AM

Absolute drivel, show us the list of exclusions, which would have to include Gwede at number 1 spot.

Grenville Wilson 15 December 2023 07:41 AM

Maybe we shouldn't be so cynical? If CR could grow a pair, this is his opportunity to split the less corrupt 1/2(if there is such a thing) and go with the moonshot pact, leaving the the rest to go with the EFF who deserve each other.

D'Esprit 15 December 2023 07:55 AM

So I'm assuming that convicted woman beater Mduduzi Manana will be kicked out despite getting the 2nd most votes for the NEC at Nasrec? Lindiwe Zulu and her latest disgusting scandal? Mashatile for his plunder of the public purse through his family? The list is, literally, almost as long as the list of ANC bigwigs.

D'Esprit 15 December 2023 08:03 AM

My understanding is that members implicated in the Zondo report (or elsewhere) have to 'present themselves before' the Integrity Commission (what a joke!) so if they don't, it can't make a finding. Problem solved. Big lump under the carpet, and it's not Cyril's new hiding place for dollars.

Geoff 16 December 2023 10:10 AM

Ah yes, and if they don't, or appeal Zondo, what then......Nothing, a kick into the long buffalo grass beyond the black stump, beyond the Pale

Bernhard 15 December 2023 08:13 AM

".. ANC agrees to exclude leaders implicated in state capture". So has their chair gwede, who has been clearly fingered by Chief Justice Zondo's Commission now been excluded? Wonderful news, if at all true! If so, then who is the new Minister of Minerals and Energy??

ishan.bickram 15 December 2023 08:21 AM

Lost all credibility

Stewart 15 December 2023 08:30 AM

The idea that the ANC will reform itself is completely absurd. Why anybody should think this is the triumph of hope over experience.

E***l@u***.ac.za 15 December 2023 08:33 AM

Don't forget about CR and Phala Phala... Do we really believe the Reserve Bank's finding that he just recieved a 'deposit' (incomplete transaction). Remember when the story initially broke, CR wanted to resign. And then Gwede convinved him not to resign. Still waiting die the lifestyle audits of the ministers and DGs. Even with a minister's salary (after tax) they can't afford to live the lifestyles they do.

Ian McGill 15 December 2023 08:49 AM

He must be naive as the rest of SA in believing the ANC will "reform" The are addicted to stealing money from the fiscus as a Junkie is to his dope.

Cachunk 15 December 2023 08:53 AM

He was probably p1ssed when he wrote the letter, sobered up and looked at his empty bottles of Johnny Walker Blue and thought “how am I going to afford more without tax payer’s money?”

Joe Irwin 18 December 2023 04:29 PM

Now that is a logical explanation.

K***o@g***.com 15 December 2023 09:07 AM

What a bunch of spineless soft c*cks.

Riaan Joubert 15 December 2023 09:13 AM

So much for integrity. A resignation letter that pointed out problems with the ANC. Was it only the resignation that was rescinded or also the issues that he raised regarding the ANC.

Albertus 15 December 2023 09:31 AM

How much money changed hands to change his mind??

Les Thorpe 15 December 2023 10:35 AM

The headline should read: "Mavuso Msimang backtracks on resignation and rejoins the nation's Top Crime Syndicate".

louise.roderick 15 December 2023 10:40 AM

What a fool he has made of himself. And I would say the ANC as well but they've been fools for a long time already.

Lisbeth Scalabrini 15 December 2023 12:09 PM

Exactly! ?

phophi 15 December 2023 11:46 AM

Typical

Jess Xash 15 December 2023 11:55 AM

Why didn't he withdraw his resignation AFTER ANC members implicated in state capture were "dealt with"?

m***w@v***.co.za 15 December 2023 12:59 PM

Bunch of clowns - everywhere they go it turns into a circus. Lack any credibility and integrity.

tonyf4466 15 December 2023 01:29 PM

So, there is at least one upright, disciplined, accountable and honest man in the ANC notwithstanding that the man Mavuso Msimang is a veteran. Cometh the hour, cometh the man and may many more appear from the shadows to shake up the skeletons hiding in the cupboard!

Michael Cosser 15 December 2023 05:13 PM

I wouldn't be too sure that the ANC monopoly in 2024 will be broken. Listen to Wayne Sussman's interview with Dan Corder: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YeHmtr3OZhJAYXbEpWBmv?si=2BKFwT5eRzqTXzl1cRnpQA&nd=1&dlsi=515973dbfcf74803

r***c@g***.com 15 December 2023 08:42 PM

I am sure this was a case of, "Comrade let's solve the ANC problems within", which basically means get paid.

f***5@g***.com 15 December 2023 09:31 PM

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kustomfiend 16 December 2023 06:45 AM

Mmm…credibility out the window.

g***n@p***.co.za 16 December 2023 07:44 AM

Mr Msimang - If you are serious about getting rid of the embarrassing corrupt repugnant scum in your party, would it not be appropriate that you insist on heading up this 'integrity committee' that has itself demonstrated no integrity, as a component of your return into the sewerage pit the ANC has become?

Stef Viljoen Viljoen 16 December 2023 07:50 AM

"We are determined that only members whose reputations are beyond reproach will be included in our list of candidates for Parliament and Provincial Legislatures.". Not so much because we want to but because we are in a corner about this. We will accept defeat in this one case but we will continue to look for ways to cheat the system.

Rae 16 December 2023 08:14 AM

No doubt the ANC NEC leaned heavily on Msimamng to rescind his resignation which was a seriously strong indication of just how badly the ANC is unravelling. Ramaphosa of course continues to issue his endless stream of meaningless and idiotic platitudes about how the party is rebuilding itself. That is a load of bull. With ministers like Fikilie Mbalula and Bheki Cele ensconced as Ramaphosa's support base in parliament, both the country and the ANC will continue disintegrating. Voting them out next year is a pressing imperative if South Africa is to prosper and survive the massive damage done by the ANC

Derek 16 December 2023 08:26 AM

Perhaps the whole thing was a cunning election stunt.

gjs2205 16 December 2023 08:33 AM

How naïve if we are to believe that all is now well! The crux of the statenent is found in: “the Ethics Comittee approval” Therein lies the open door…

Jana Krejci 16 December 2023 09:16 AM

xxx

Fernando Ferreira 16 December 2023 09:57 AM

There should be absolutely no redemption for Ali baba and the infinite thieves.what criteria for the benchmark none.its like a bulldog who has no teeth.(SIC)

p***0@g***.com 16 December 2023 10:40 AM

they have no shame these ANC clowns.

Trudy Jensen 16 December 2023 05:31 PM

Thank goodness the contents of his resignation letter were published, so readers are aware of his misgivings about the ANC. The fact that he has backtracked, is disappointing, believing that at last someone in the ANC has some integrity. But unfortunately dirt sticks....

m***e@a***.co.za 17 December 2023 09:49 AM

Who cares? If he had any moral fibre, he'd never become a member of the ANC in the first place. The fact that his quibbling about his motives to resign his membership is text book ANC dithering. You either have moral fibre or you don't – there's no middle-ground.

Cobble Dickery 17 December 2023 10:29 AM

The trouble with things like this when someone does a 'noble' move people's esteem of them is elevated. Then when they retract it the esteem is not reduced to what it was. In fact it is very much lowered. Whatever credibility he had before he made the statement is now lost. Because you can't undo a statement like this and then think it is as if it did not exist when you retract it.

Michael Bowes 17 December 2023 01:30 PM

This is yet another demonstration of the ANC understanding of itself to be above the law of the land. They alone will decide in their internal committees who is in and who is out. Do we not have a Police Force and a National Prosecuting Authority for all of us? Oh Wait!! I see the fault in my argument! The ANC got there first and butchered them.

Lloyd De Bruin 17 December 2023 01:41 PM

If they stick to this, it’s going to be a very short list…

Hulme Scholes 17 December 2023 03:31 PM

….. and of course the “Integrity Committee” will clear all of them because if it doesn’t, there will be nobody available for the criminal syndicate that is the African National Cancer. I think those clowns think we are all as stupid as they are and we buy their bs. What a pathetic bunch of idiots.

sibusile 17 December 2023 10:26 PM

It's good that Mavuso Msimango and other veterans can rise above the unruly Mbalula for a change. These are some of the signs that the movement does have glimpse of revival by taking a leaf out of an old book of wisdom and history.

The Stoic, Cynic and Epicurean 18 December 2023 05:33 AM

I guess the ANC Integrity Commission will now hurriedly forge ahead to clear all of them before the list is drafted.

Wayne 18 December 2023 08:45 AM

Have you ever seen a shame -faced ANC member? You will see pigs fly before that happens, I can assure you. You cannot feel shame if you do not have a conscience or have no respect for the citizens of this country. Voetsek ANC, voetsek!

peddledavid7 18 December 2023 09:33 AM

Well the old saying, everyone has a price, it just needs to be discovered, has just been proved again!