Khoza’s resignation from ANC ‘a great loss to us’, says Paul Mashatile

The African National Congress has suffered a huge blow with the resignation of its MP Dr Makhosi Khoza, Gauteng ANC chairperson Paul Mashatile said on Thursday.

“Any one person leaving the organisation is great loss to us, and I’m sure as we change the way we do things in the ANC we would wish that some of them would come back,” Mashatile told TimesLIVE, speaking on the sidelines of the Human Settlement Developments Summit in Boksburg‚ east of Johannesburg.

“We are busy doing that [self-correcting], and you know we have a conference coming where there will be new programmes‚ there will be change of leadership.”

Addressing journalists at Liliesleaf Farm in northern Johannesburg, Khoza said the ANC – which lost major urban metros to the opposition in last year’s local government elections – would not self-correct, as it had committed to.

She also said she refused to be led by leaders who have lost legitimacy and credibility, as well as by leaders who are corrupt and tolerant of corruption.

“This ANC will not self-correct because the politics of patronage run deeper than roots to the core of the earth. Corruption has been institutionalised,” Khoza said.

Mashatile told the news website he did not think Khoza was correct to say the ANC was a corrupt organisation.

“We may have challenges with certain individuals, but the ANC in fact has been at the forefront of fighting corruption. There are good men and women in the ANC, and I think they’ll be able to continue to strive to ensure that the ANC deals with these challenges‚” he said.

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