I cannot, in good conscience, attribute the weak state of our movement to you only. All of us, as leaders must take responsibility without blaming our members.

Maybe, Mr. President, this is the opportune time to tell our members whether during the so-called “nine wasted years” any of your companies ever did business with the government (national or provincial) while you were Deputy President of our movement and the country.

This would help you, Mr President, to dispel this unfortunate allegation, sometimes, directed at you. It is Individuals from the ANC who must bury their heads in shame, not the ANC, our Glorious Movement.

Mr. President, the ANC, and the entire anti-apartheid movement always faced the threat of infiltration. At different times, during our struggle, our movement discovered spies and enemy agents, commonly called, Izimpimpi, within its ranks.

However, not once was the ANC ever accused of selling out merely because there were sell-outs within its ranks.

Those individuals faced the charges leveled against them and could not ask the ANC, as you do in your letter, to stand in their place as Accused No. 1 for their individual actions. It is cold comfort that later in your letter you attempt to say that you are not accusing every ANC member.

It is clear that indeed you do accuse each and every member and the ANC itself for the crimes of a few deployed in the structures of the state, who may be abusing resources and betraying the revolution and the ANC itself for the crimes of a few deployed in the structures of the state, who may be abusing resources and betraying the revolution.

Mr. President, It appears that it has become your hallmark since our 54th National Conference to divert accusations from yourself rather than to face them and clear your name.

Mr. President, you currently stand accused of having received almost R1bn in donations from White Monopoly Capital just to win an internal ANC contest.

The ANC has repeatedly decried this phenomenon as something foreign to its culture, policies, and constitution.

We all know that such donations amounted to sacrificing the historic mission of the ANC for 30 pieces of silver.

Worse still, and as a matter of fact, and with some unsurprising help from the Judgment of the North Gauteng High Court, you have sealed the record reflecting your generous donors in order for the public and ordinary members of the ANC you lead never to know the identities of those who funded your campaign to win the Presidency of our glorious movement and consequently ascend to the highest office in our land. You have done this, knowing full well that the ANC has discouraged and decried the role of money in its internal elections.

This, in my view, represents a major betrayal of those who voted for you with no knowledge that their vote was going to be enhanced by the WMC donors.

Until you, Mr. President, and your National Executive Committee come clean to the ordinary members of our movement, your letters and statements will be construed as your attempts to appease those who, by their ill-gotten riches,…