With the ANC elective conference around the corner, one can only hope secretary-general Gwede Mantashe retains his position. He has played a pivotal role in cracking down on ill discipline in a chaotic political atmosphere. Never before have we seen senior ANC members behaving like free agents, casting aspersions on the president and bringing the name of the organisation into disrepute. Mantashe held firm, rebuking those who hid behind moral conscience to undermine the ANC collective and the structures that deployed them to Parliament. I hope he challenges the conference to get tough on this emerging neoliberal tendency before it contaminates our glorious movement. We cannot allow so-called conscience to supersede the political significance of the oath of membership. It would open a floodgate to deployees colluding with counterrevolutionary forces for their own fame. If they have holier consciences than everyone else in the ANC, they must leave. They ought to be locked out of the mo...
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