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Cape Town – The failed motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma was nothing but a strategy to liquidate the ANC, the party’s Women’s League said yesterday.
The motion, brought by the Democratic Alliance, was debated in Parliament on Thursday, and failed after 214 MPs voted against the motion and 126 voted in its favour.
ANC Women’s League secretary general Meokgo Matuba said they welcomed the rejection of the motion.
“The DA and its allies are under pressure to deliver on the mandate of imperialist forces to advance regime change in SA. The aim is to have white supremacy rule which will economically marginalise black people and not allow land redistribution programmes in SA.”
She named a number of government successes under the ANC.
“The imperialist funded motion, attempting to reverse the gains of our democracy has been rejected by Parliament and the ANCWL welcomes the decision.
“Parliament representing the views of South Africans has demonstrated its confidence in the State President Jacob Zuma and his collective.”
The league applauded the rejection of the motion.
“Divergent to the apartheid government, the ANC-led government is a champion of women emancipation and has interests in the lives of our children. The DA and its allies have no interests in the development of the vulnerable in society, but to deliver on the imperialist mandate of regime change in SA,” Matuba said.
Meanwhile, hundreds of ANC supporters, mostly students and pupils in school uniform, celebrated the defeat of the motion of no confidence in Zuma.
The supporters were addressed by ministers Nathi Mthethwa and Nomvula Mokonyane, as well as ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte in a mini-rally outside Parliament.
The ministers slammed opposition parties for the “opportunistic” motion, taking turns in lashing out at DA leader Mmusi Maimane, EFF leader Julius Malema and Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota.
Duarte said they had defeated the forces of darkness on Thursday.
“We fought for this country, we will keep this country in our hands. It will not be owned by the backward DA. And it will not be owned by the Lekotas,” she said.
Mokonyane said the ANC was the future, and no one could stop the party. “Run Julius, run Maimane. Forward Msholozi, forward,” she said.
Following the defeat of the motion, the ANC in Parliament said the party would never associate itself with a motion “based on concocted fabrications [rather] than substantive facts”.
Motions of no confidence were part of the DA’s political programme, chief whip Jackson Mthembu’s office said.
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