He said a ‘false ideology’ was being promoted amongst South Africans to get them to topple the ANC.
The African National Congress is currently under serious attack, its NEC member said.
David Mahlobo said those who were currently attacking the ANC were at the same time using certain ANC leaders to achieve this.
He said the first meeting discussing plans to remove the ANC from power was convened in mid-2000 after the ANC won the 1999 general elections with an overwhelming majority.
The second one occurred in 2005, convened by NGOs sponsored by what he called “monopoly capital” of the West.
Mahlobo was speaking during the elective congress of the ANC in the eHlanzeni region on Saturday night at Nutting House Lodge in Mbombela.
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“There are things that are happening in the ANC, in the country and in the world,” he said while on stage.
“We must speak about these things because if we don’t we will work with people that we are not supposed to work with. I want to tell you what are we dealing with, please comrades don’t record me in the newspapers,” Mahlobo said.
He said the 2000 conference was convened by a foreign non-profit organisation and professors from various South African universities and they met in the Eastern Cape under theme ‘Opposition in South Africa’.
“They met again in October 2005. This time they agreed on one theme, ‘Challenges to Democracy by One Party Dominance’,” Mahlobo told delegates.
“In 2005 this is after the ANC won the 2004 elections by an overwhelming majority. Every time we win they meet and discuss that the growth of the ANC is not right,” he said.
He said the outcomes of these two meetings resulted in something called ‘Collective for Democracy in the Republic of South Africa’.
“Here comrades it was a coalition of opposition parties who agreed that though their ideologies were different but we must unite and take out the ANC. They agreed to form a coalition of opposition,” said Mahlobo.
Mahlobo, who is also the country’s intelligence minister, spoke for close to 2 hours warning delegates about Western plots to remove the ANC from power.
He said those who wanted to topple the ANC based their narrative on a ‘false ideology’ of corruption, similar to the one applied when taking out Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power.
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He also said there were others inside the ANC who were working with the West and were paid in dollars and “another said he would stand for presidency even though he knew he would lose just to impress his masters”.
He said those ANC individuals who were hired to effect regime change programmes were scared of raising the issues they were raising inside ANC gatherings and “others we sit with in NEC meetings but they continue to tell the public there’s no direction in the ANC”.
Mahlobo asked journalists to not quote him as a minister when he addressed ANC gatherings.
eHlanzeni ANC chairman Ngrayi Ngwenya was re-elected as well as secretary Phazamisa Mathe and treasurer Momotho Thumbathi.
Sibusiso Mathonsi and Nathaniel Mashile also retained their seats as deputy chairman and deputy secretary respectively.
(edited by MLM)
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