Carl Niehaus

Ambassador

MEDIA STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR CARL MPANGAZITHA NIEHAUS: ANNOUNCING MY DECISION TO RESIGN FROM THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), AND TO TERMINATE MY MEMBERSHIP WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

Date: Friday, 23 December 2022

It is with great sadness, and much pain in my heart, that I am issuing this media statement in order to announce, and clarify, my decision to resign forthwith from the African National Congress (ANC).

I know that there are those who will continue with their cheap Stratcom political propaganda, attempting to undermine the gravitas and importance of this decision, by trying to argue that I cannot resign from an organisation that I have apparently already been ‘expelled’ from. They know very well that since I have formally appealed, and filed my Heads of Argument with the ANC National Disciplinary Committee off Appeal (NDCA), the status quo of my ANC membership was maintained, and my so-called ‘expulsion’ suspended until the NDCA ruled on my appeal. To put it straightforward and simply: I remained a member of the ANC, and with this media statement I am now resigning my membership.

From the moment of issuing this media statement I am forthwith terminating my uninterrupted veteran ANC membership of over 43 years, with immediate effect.

I have already e-mailed a copy of this media statement, together with a short covering letter to the Office of the ANC Secretary General (SGO). I have furthermore instructed my comrade and legal representative, Dr. Mathews Phosa, to officially withdraw my appeal against the spurious, draconian, and illegal, ‘expulsion’ that the kangaroo court of the National Disciplinary Committee so unilaterally, and illegally, imposed on me.

It follows that since I am resigning with immediate effect, to proceed with my appeal will be illogical, and a waste of time and effort. There is also no need to subject myself to the continuing farcical kangaroo court of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee, and by extension the National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal. The trumped up charges that were brought against me never had any shred of validity. Under that pompous vacuous moronic windbag Fikile Mbalula, who now so farcically emerged as the Secretary General (SG) of the ANC, there is no chance that any appeal will be adjudicated fairly. Mbalula’s own triumphalist dictatorial statement at the closing press conference of the 55th National Conference, that he will be an Inquisition-like enforcer, is more than enough evidence that the so-called ‘New Dawn’, is now a full blown era of dictatorship and the repression of freedom of speech.

History has no empty pages, and my decades long history, and the dedication and sacrifices that I have made in pursuit of the full liberation of black, especially African South Africans, as a member of the African National Congress, is well known and a matter of public record. It is not necessary to reiterate that history in this media statement, those who want to acquaint themselves further with my lifelong dedication to the liberation struggle, can watch the series of four in depth interviews that THE AGENDA NETWORK recently released as part of building up an Oral History Archive (YouTube: https:// youtube.com/@TheAgendaNetwork; Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/ TheAgendaNetwork/?mibextid=LQQJ4d).

Two days ago, on Wednesday the 21st of December, I hosted a three and a half hour long #InMyCrosshairs Twitter Space, that was tuned in to by over 30 000 participants, during which I engaged with fellow comrades, and explained in detail why I cannot continue to be a member of the ANC. The recordings of this open, public, engagement can be listened to on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGlaOPqXrJL, and watched on YouTube.

I made it clear that my ideals, which informed my decision to join the African National Congress 43 years ago, in July 1979, are still exactly the same. My commitment to the full liberation of black, and especially African, South Africans - which encapsulates both liberation from racism and economic exploitation and subjugation - have not changed at all. However, because of a long history of betrayal by sell out leaders, spies and agents of imperialism and White Monopoly Capital (WMC), the original liberation task and commitment with which the ANC was formed on the 8th of January 1912, at the Waaihoek Methodist Church in Mangaung, was slowly but surely hollowed out, and eventually totally betrayed. This is what comrade Chris Hani warned us against, and that is why he had to be assassinated.

During the CODESA negotiations that led to our deeply flawed Constitution, and since the first democratic elections, the ANC leadership’s increasing (eventually wholesale), acceptance of neoliberal economic policies - especially during the last five years of the disastrous reign of Cyril Ramaphosa - finally destroyed any liberation impulse that still remained in the ANC.

The death knell for the ANC was sounded when Ramaphosa, and his sell out NEC, was corruptly and fraudulently elected at the 54th National Conference of the ANC in December 2017 at NASREC. This finally culminated five years later in the disastrous outcomes the 55th National Conference of the ANC, that was held from the 16th to the 20th of December, again at NASREC. The ANC is now finally dead and buried, all that remains is to erect the tombstone.

The ANC of John Langalibile Dube, Lilian Ngoyi, Charlotte Maxeke, Helen Joseph, Braam Fischer, Chief Albert Luthuli and Oliver Reginald Tambo, that I joined 43 years ago, has by design deliberately been killed. It no longer exists. I have not left the ANC, the ANC has left me.

Our ANC ancestors are spinning in their graves! Imposters have taken over, and they are abusing the ANC colours and logo for a neoliberal thing, that is no longer the original ANC, and that is now in the slave-like service of White Monopoly Capitalism (WMC), and Western Imperialism, led by sell out agents and spies under the criminal mafia leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa.