The ANC must not be derailed from the programme of the organisation
Recent developments within the movement clearly show there are forces at play here that are trying to throw the ANC into disarray as a strategy to achieve despicable agendas.
The recent outbursts by Julius Malema at Wits calling President Zuma a dictator; Floyd Shivambu's angry and bigoted articles; and Sindiso Magaqa's childish antics are not isolated incidents but part of a deliberate and well-orchestrated strategy to destabilize the ANC for the whole year until Mangaung.
This strategy seems to have as its desired outcome an ANC that is in crisis management mode, thus forcing it into committing a series of public relations mistakes to ensure the success of this agenda of discrediting the capacity and bona fides of ANC leaders.
This strategy also seems to have behind it certain ANC leaders, current and former, advising the likes of Floyd by dishing them with certain unscrupulous information about other ANC leaders, thus abusing their close proximity to processes of the ANC. Using this unverified disinformation to attack leaders of the ANC is malicious and amounts to political slander that can only point to a dangerous slide to disorder.
These outbursts also smell of the reactionary influence by certain incorrigibles that have suddenly come from political wilderness back to the ranks of the ANC. They seem to be staging a state of paralysis within the ANC so that the current leadership is unable to lead the organization effectively. Who else to use to create chaos and a state of despair in any organization than those young, ill-disciplined members who are full of misguided passions?