Political Analyst Ntsikelelo Breakfast says that the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party needs to hold an elective conference to prevent unilateral decision-making within the party.
This follows the resignation of the party’s Secretary-General Arthur Zwane. Zwane, in a letter to party leader and former President Jacob Zuma, cited his resignation as due to his workload conflicting with his business interests.
The letter came shortly after Zuma informed Zwane that he had been relinquished of his position effective immediately.
Breakfast says, “The biggest takeaway from what’s happening is the absence of democracy, what I call substitutionism because now you are substituting democracy with dictatorship. If one person makes a decision and then the rest of the ranking five respond by saying that serves the lord, that is not democracy. Even if you want to argue and say no there is democratic centralism.”
He adds: “Democratic centralism doesn’t mean that one person makes [decisions]. Democratic centralism means that people debate, that’s why there’s an element of democracy, you debate and debate then you exhaust discourse, then you pronounce, then all in the country must abide.”
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#MKParty Secretary General #ArthurZwane has resigned after being in office for a mere few months. “The work in the office is huge and competes with my other business interests” #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/ILWXeB4ibx
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