MAKHOSI KHOZA: 'In those voting booths‚ we chose between right and wrong'
'As I prepare to face my disciplinary process‚ it remains clear to me that the greatest disloyalty possible by a member of the ANC‚ is abandoning the people who elected us to power'
I have taken time to reflect on last week’s vote of no confidence against our President. Tuesday‚ 8 August 2017 will go down in South African history as the day the ANC’s moral pulse was all but extinguished. Going into the vote‚ it was doubtful whether much of a moral pulse existed at all. Coming out of the vote‚ the pulse was there thanks to the actions of 25-35 ANC MPs but that pulse is now weak and fading. The Speaker of the National Assembly showed fortitude in agreeing to a secret vote. Even those who abstained from the vote offered us a glimmer of hope of the moral conscience that does exist within ANC branches and thousands of rank and file ANC members. Despite party-focused instruction and barely veiled threats from their leaders these righteous members of the ANC stood their ground. They stood true to their oaths as MPs‚ choosing to defend the rights of those who elected them to public office‚ instead of defending the immoral and indefensible. As proud as I am of these MPs...
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