AL JAMA-AH has become the latest to reject the ANC’s proposed Government of National Unity and to warn the liberation movement against working with the Democratic Alliance.
The party which is represented in the national assembly and some municipalities is adamant that the ANC has been given a mandate ( although not outright) and should form a minority government instead of a GNU, which AL JAMA-AH views as a “return to white rule”.
“Less dependence on white monopoly is the only way to prosperity for all South Africans. The country’s economy should be controlled by Blacks; the reparation of land will not be achieved by a GNU. Codesa delayed true freedom and a GNU will further bury these aspirations which would eventually lead to a bloodbath,” said AL JAMA-AH leader Genief Hendricks.
Even ahead of the elections that eventually produced a stalemate, AL JAMA-AH had accused the DA of usurping the power of elected politicians by reversing executive and parliamentary decisions through the court.
“The people have elected us, the ANC as a majority and all the other parties to run the country and certainly not the judges but now you have a situation where we are not governing as elected representatives because the DA runs to court on every decision and seemingly the courts are friendly to the party and that should stop, the majority needs to have a final say, said Hendricks while launching AL-JAMAH’s election manifesto.
Hendricks also warned the ANC and in particular president Cyril Ramaphosa and other top leaders that the DA could not be trusted and that once in the GNU, it could easily topple them.
“The party views the GNU as a mere modernised approach of apartheid with a clear objective for regime change through a ‘soft coup’. Lessons must be learnt from the past 30 years of freedom which are described by many as fake. South Africa must govern and serve her people without any interference from the former colonial ‘masters’ which is against the ANC’s policy of non-racialism. “The inequalities existing amongst South Africans have been allowed to grow to alarming proportions and this requires a radical change,” said Hendricks.
Hendircks also suggested the GNU could be an alternative for the DA to pursue the agenda of “white capital” after the so called Moon-Shot Pact fell apart with almost all parties that formed it rejected by voters.
“Al Jama-ah outrightly rejects a GNU because it will include the values of the Moonshot Pact which is anti-humanitarian, supports the genocide of Palestinians and its policies are anti-poor leaving the vast majority of South Africans out in the cold,” said Henricks.
The ANC however found an unlikely ally in the Pan Africanist Congress which said on Monday that after a meeting of delegations from the two parties, it was keen to talk further on possibilities of forming part of the proposed “ Government of National Unity”.
“The PAC delegation expressed the willingness to engage further, emphasising that our support is contingent upon the modalities being worked out and further discussion by our National Executive Committee,” said the PAC in a statement.
The ANC also said its consultation will include civil society organisations.