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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The ANC has announced that veteran Mavuso Msimang has rescinded his resignation as the party agrees to exclude from 2024 parliamentary lists members who have been implicated in State Capture and have not been cleared by the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.
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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Mr Msimang I feel this withdrawal of your resignation shows your lack of real ethics and as such the ANC is indeed your true home.
Disagree John. He has succeeded in getting state capture implicatees removed from the 2024 parliamentary lists. I believe that he is one of the old school and can surely achieve more from within the ANC
You are more trusting of the ANC than many others. IF the ANC abides by its agreement with Msimang then he will have achieved something but I suspect that the ANC will start quibbling as to whether “members implicated in State Capture” includes all those members who were criticised by Zondo or only those who have been prosecuted. Time will tell.
I suspect you are correct
Hundreds.
The old “innocent until guilt” line will be played here.
Note how SG states “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,”
… if their names have NOT BEEN CLEARED by the ANC INTEGRITY commission. So it does not matter their implication, only if they have been cleared or not. Clever by the SG, but clearly playing on a loop hole.
The ANC are playing games instead of reforming, that should tell us all we need to know.
and the anc has as much integrity as wet toilet paper
The statement from the ANC is “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,”
That is not the same as your statement that they will not be included. The integrity commission is likely to clear the large majority of names not because they are innocent but because they want them in parliament.
Not because they want them to be in parliament, but because of the lack of “beyond reasonable doubt” kind of evidence that proves that the said members are guilty of what Zondo commission implicated them for.
Because the ANC integrity commission is not a court of law where evidence is led and cross-examined, then a person is found guilty or innocent… So the commission will make a decision based on the information before it, and we can’t blame it for the ‘sleeping-on-the-job’ of the NPA.
While I understand your position, I don’t agree with it.
The ANC integrity commission should be far stricter than any legal requirement as it is about “integrity” rather than “conviction”.
As far as I’m concerned the onus should be on the implicated to prove they are clean integrity-wise rather than the other way around.
The idea being to prevent people going anywhere near anything even vaguely dodgy so that the citizens of our country can have complete faith in the leadership.
you have a habit of reading my mind John
Twaddle. he has succeeded in getting those cleared by the ‘integrity committee’ included.
Oh please!!!
As long as they are cleared by the absolute toothless ethics committee? Wet all know everyone of the cases will be cleared.
Ethic-less too.
You are being very naive Gavin. There is zero prospect of the ANC following through on that commitment.
He’s free to re-join if he’s convinced preventing a few crooks from being MPs means “reform”. I however think he is naive and disregarding that Zuma’s election campaign platform in 2007 was disbanding the Scorpions; his election is a clear indicator that the majority of the ANC officials are inclined to impunity. Unless cadre deployment is scrapped, the Scorpions are re-instituted and reinvigorated, and all high-ranking public servants are subject to periodic lifestyle audits we’ll see no real improvement. Seems like his concern wasn’t that the ANC is corrupt; only that they took corruption too far.
He resigned for the wrong reason he should resign for the failure of the ANC to carry out the mandate given by all south africans in 1994 among others to build an equal society by upholding the constitution, proper governance, redressing imbalances of the past and improving the lives of all south africans, the zondo comission on state capture is just one barometer of all the social ills the ANC has not only failed to address but have made worse, the constitutional court is now the battle ground for factional battles, the integrity commitee is a sweet name used to blind people unfortunately we see more in the darkness of loadshedding
Agree 100% John. There is not one single individual in this criminal gang with a scrap of integrity or ethics. As other commentators have said, the “integrity” commission will swiftly clear all and everyone.
Indeed
No DM, you will not get a response from Msimang. If I was him, I’d be far too embarrassed to speak to the media after flip-flopping like any other common-or-garden ANC rubber chicken. Also, he now has to toe the party line once more, so say goodbye to principles, hello to same old post-revolutionary dogma and pie in the sky platitudes about “renewal”…. “good stories to tell”, “…. cracking down on corruption” etc etc. Is there a single person left in the ANC who harbours a shred of remorse for what they have brought on this country and it’s people?
Absolutely remarkable!! Provided all the real reasons about the rot in the ANC causing his resignation and then casually tosses it all into the wind and “rescinds”.
Well the old saying, everyone has a price, it just needs to be discovered, has just been proved again!
Some still recall a certain Dubai joyride. Perhaps Frikkie should come clean on that too.
Noted somewhere…and over the Xmas and New Year period
“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”…….watch how quickly the “Integrity” Commission springs into action to hastily clear all and sundry of wrong doing. Hey presto, problem solved. Muppets
100 %
Don’t forget that the “integrity” committee clears anybody of anything, so another copout. How disappointing.
Integrity and ANC in the same sentence is anyway a contradiction in terms.
Lol
And once again, another ANC member shows that his spine is non-existent.
We really have been blessed with the most feckless bunch of individuals in the world.
I would say this is embarrassing, but I guess a person first needs self respect before they are capable of embarrassment.
So sad, too bad!
Clueless !
One minute there is no hope for the ANC now all is well
Integrity in the dustbin !
Vote DA SAVE SOUTH AFRICA
There is no time left
I think key here is that the ruling party only ever seems to respond to major issues when they are undeniable train smashes that can’t be deflected away from. Its one reason why they will lose their monopoly in 2024. I can’t condemn Msimang for returning if it got some matters dealt with. And the bonus was Mbalula got cut down to size – long overdue.
Oh because the ANC Integrity Commission is such a great example of unbiased opinions and actions. Whatever……….
flip flop,another plop
Is he going to retract the letter he wrote too? Was the content not true?
When you vote for rubbish you get rubbish
How Mbalula has remained in high office is beyond me. He has made many embarrassing/ stupid public announcements, & has done no good at all at any of the portfolios he has been head of. As far as stupid statements go, he comes second only to Cele.
Which tells you exactly what’s wrong with the ANC. That Mr Msimang sees it fit to rejoin the party whose SG didn’t blink before spewing lies all over the show tells you what low standards he’s happy with. This lot is such an embarrassment for SA.
All very well, but what are they going to do about their ill-disciplined SG??
Headline tomorrow ANC Integrity Commission met and found everyone implicated in the Zomdo Report to be innocent and fit to stand for parliament. Problem solved. Everyone happy everyone is innocent.
Not as bad as it seems. The ANC was always going to be part of the new government with a worst, and probably likely scenario of them getting EFF support to govern with all the rotten apples. If Msimang exercises his threat to only stay if the rotten apples are removed this would be a better outcome than an ANC/EFF coalition with all the rotten apples remaining aided and abetted by Julius and company.
You have a point. I fear, however, that you may be overestimating Msimang’s sway.
Mbalula is the worse thing the ANC have done. He blows with the wind.
As other commenters have already pointed out, the ANC’s Integrity Commission is a paper tiger, and there can be little doubt that it will “clear” most of the ANC’s many rotten apples, if not all of them.
This little stratagem was cooked up once again in an attempt to fool the public into believing that the ANC is serious about rooting out corruption. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth because it would have done much more towards that end if it really was serious.
But perhaps the bigger, more insidious problem is that with election fever ramping up, the ANC is feverishly spending money the country does not have in order to buy as many votes, as quickly as possible. The ANC will blithely bankrupt SA just to retain power. For the ANC, it’s full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes.
Mavuso Msimang, in his resignation letter, did not mention the Zondo Commission specifically or by name but ANC now does.
What about all the other potential candidates who are accused of criminality?
Msimang’s resignation letter said: “To address these societal perceptions, the ANC Veterans’ League, in a resolution passed at its conference and in decisions subsequently taken at the league’s successive National Executive Committee meetings, urged the leadership of the organisation to ensure that members who have been accused of criminality OR recommended for referral to criminal justice institutions by commissions set up to investigate corruption, should not be allowed to continue in office. The Veterans’ League specifically recommended that such individuals be considered ineligible for nomination to represent the ANC in the 2024 national and provincial elections. Unfortunately, the ANC NEC has shown no urgency to deal with this matter.”
Hahaa! If it sounds too good to be true…
Not ONE of the implicated will stand trial.
I wonder how much they paid Msimang…
No matter who, when or what: if it says ANC on it, it’s vrot!
And everyone was gushing about this man’s unwavering integrity. Clearly everyone knows exactly what “and have not been cleared by the Integrity Committee” means. Disappointed, but not really surprised.
PLEASE: “The ANC has also committed to deal swiftly with ill-disciplined members including those implicated in state capture.” Since 2017, only one ANC Member has been convicted and in that case, they wanted him gone from the ANC.
Furthermore, and I quote from DM’s own article:
“More recently, the chair of the commission, George Mashamba, was not able to explain why people against whom findings had been made by the Zondo Commission had not reported to him to explain themselves.
Crucially, in that same interview, Mashamba appeared to downplay the importance of his own commission. And when it came to actual decisions, he explained that the Integrity Commission reports to the NEC, where: “we make our input, they decide what to do”.
All of this suggests that his commission does in fact have little to no real power.
But this may have been the original intention.”
“ANC” and “Integrity” don’t belong in the same sentence – a massive oxymoron.
Msimang in the same flip-flop league as Julius Malema? How the hell can you trust any of the ANC or EFF comrades to play to democratic rules and have an integrated community that actually works. As for Mbalula, Ramaphosa must indeed be his subservient lapdog. Why the hell else could he possibly retain this clown in his cabinet?
cry the beloved country
Mbalula is no longer a member of the cabinet or a minister of any kind. His current role is a party position: Secretary-General of the ANC. And since he was elected at the party’s national conference by a majority of the delegates, Ramaphosa actually has no direct say in the matter.
Only a disciplinary process instituted through the party’s National Disciplinary Committee can remove the SG — and it would likely require a grave contravention of the party’s constitution for that to happen. Magashule got canned because he greatly overstepped his powers (attempting to suspend the party president) AND refused to backtrack or apologise.
And as we all know, Mbabula is extremely adept at backtracking after the damage has already been done. He might have the strongest Teflon coating of all the officeholders.
The man lacks the courage of his conviction. Loyalty to an ideology no matter how corrupt or criminal, always supersedes the desire for what’s best for the country. His whole public resignation was a sham to say the least. But then, on the other hand, some media pundits had already put him on the list of VIP’s to form the Jardine et al super party! How easily we are beguiled by any thread of hope that might bring an end to this wretched government.
OK, publish the list of who can be national, provincial and NEC…
Asking for a friend
And this is the guy the credulous midwits amongst us lauded as a great moral beacon.
Msimang has been ambushed by the ANC spindoctors and his credibility has been destroyed!
What remains is just a senile old man with selective morality and complicity in the failed state of the ANC.
Smoke, mirrors, wiggle room, resignations, new parties, reversed resignations – all to confuse the electorate.
Does that include a number ofMinisters & Mbalula hims3lf
This poor old man may have been forced not to resign using scary threats.
I did think along the same lines as you. Will we ever know the truth about anything coming from the ANC?
All you will ever know as that you don’t know, and what you do no, you would be brain dead to believe! The sun has set on the new dawn before it could ever rise! Now we have a new gimmick. For now! Vote!
The more things change , the more they stay the same
After being heaped with praise, respect and integrity, he proves he has none. Copout. Just another ANC thing again.
So election season has arrived I see…
Riiiiggghhhtttttttt
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!
“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
The spine of a jelly fish – such bend over morals
Baaaahhh,humbug.
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.
Absolute drivel, show us the list of exclusions, which would have to include Gwede at number 1 spot.
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.
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.
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.
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
“.. 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??
Lost all credibility
The idea that the ANC will reform itself is completely absurd. Why anybody should think this is the triumph of hope over experience.
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.
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.
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?”
Now that is a logical explanation.
What a bunch of spineless soft c*cks.
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.
How much money changed hands to change his mind??
The headline should read: “Mavuso Msimang backtracks on resignation and rejoins the nation’s Top Crime Syndicate”.
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.
Exactly! 🤡
Typical
Why didn’t he withdraw his resignation AFTER ANC members implicated in state capture were “dealt with”?
Bunch of clowns – everywhere they go it turns into a circus. Lack any credibility and integrity.
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!
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
I am sure this was a case of, “Comrade let’s solve the ANC problems within”, which basically means get paid.
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Mmm…credibility out the window.
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?
“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.
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
Perhaps the whole thing was a cunning election stunt.
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…
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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)
they have no shame these ANC clowns.
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….
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.
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.
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.
If they stick to this, it’s going to be a very short list…
….. 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.
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.
I guess the ANC Integrity Commission will now hurriedly forge ahead to clear all of them before the list is drafted.
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!
Well the old saying, everyone has a price, it just needs to be discovered, has just been proved again!