Rasool calls for end to ANC battles over 'shrinking piece of cake'
Cape Town – The ANC in the Western Cape needs to stop fighting over a piece of cake that is getting smaller and smaller the longer internal battles persist, former provincial leader and Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Friday.
Addressing the party's provincial lekgotla in Worcester, Western Cape, Rasool told provincial executive committee (PEC) members that being the opposition could be fun.
The party had lost a lot of support in the province, he said, and needed to redefine the values it stood for.
The party went from leading in the Western Cape to having only one mayor, he said, because comrades had been focused on being councillors, mayors, premiers and filling other positions.
"We need to become people with aspirations rather than timeframes, and earn the right to get considered for the position, because the position belongs to the ANC and not to us," he said.