AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, CHIEF ALBERT LUTHUL! HOUSE 54 SAUER STREET JOHANNESBURG 2001 2019 JUNE 10 Comrade Ace Magashule The Secretary General ‘African National Congress Dear Comrade Secretary General. RE: Resignation as an ANC Representative in the National Assembly Kindly be informed that | am resigning as a representative of the African National Congress in the National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa with immediate effect. Allow me to take this opportunity and thank the organization of the people, the African National Congress for allowing me an opportunity to serve the nation. My heart goes to the past and present leadership of the African National Congress Women's League in particular for allowing me to serve with them and passed the knowledge and information of what serving the people is all about. My leaders have always instilled resilience in us through high levels of perseverance and patience. Serving the people of South Africa, the African National Congress and the African National Congress Women’s League is a wish of any young South African. It's the greatest part of a life of all those that never had any home of all those who participated in mass struggles, in the student movement as well as underground structures of the movement but never blew their horn about their participation in the struggle.Many of us have compromised the families thi the liberation of the people of South Africa, We choose organization of the choice, rough participating in the struggle for ‘e did not give our families an offer to but our choices made them part of the struggle. | have reflected a lot on my past and this has assisted me to start from where things Started. My family that lost its property and had to move from place to place in order {0 ensure that they were safe. | have to apologies to my mother who is now 84 years old, my father who is 86 years old today, my siblings as well as my extended family. |,am humbled by the fearless, honest, fortunate, resilient Women’s League leaders Who have shown us that to be able to fight discrimination against Women one needs 1p have @ heart of steel and endurance, This has prepared us to sharpen and deepen our understanding of patriarchy. This is the right time to ask important Guestions about the willingness of our organization the African National Congress to fight patriarchy as a leader of the Society, Our 54" congress has taught us many lessons. * The first lesson is that, the Africa by women. * The second lesson is that some amongst us do not understand the wealth that women’s organizations bring and contribute to a political party whether tight wing or left wing organizations. in National Congress is not ready to be led Some do not even understand a call made by the organizations they created to fight the women's that are fundamental to the survival of the Aftican National Congress he ‘emergence of organizations have pronounced that women's issues, eg. Violence, culture are apolitical will kill the Women’s League. IF members of the AVtican National Congress Women’s League want a strong women's organization, they must not pay up service but must imploment. the discussions of the African National Congress must change quality of issues of women without fear or favor, the lives of women must change quantitatively. | have also leamt that many behaviors are creeping into the Aftican National Congress and we have not been addressing them. The African National Congress has its culture and processes that are not written in the book but have been an established process. What we see today in the Aftican National Congress is foreign and no one is prepared to stop these.The conferences that took place leading to the leading to National Conference leave much to be desired but the most shocking of all was judgments that were handed down just before the conference and they were accepted. ‘Some Provinces took the African National Congress fo court and nothing happened and when some took the African National Congress to court, a lot of noise was made. This has put the organization into disrepute but because we were all going to Conference these were not looked into. The African National Congress has never attended @ conference under such a cloud. These are issues that have never been discussed more particularly because they include the judiciary which has itself complained about its overreach through the Chief Justice. One other challenge we have is that of those that think they own the President and the Secretary General. The very same people that complained about this during the Past leadership are repeating this and | am not sure whether they think this is good when itis done by them. It is also worrisome that these are members in the NEC that have fought all the Presidents, from President Nelson Mandela, President Thabo Mbeki and President Jacob Zuma. | am waiting to see what they are planning for the present leadership. One of the ways leaders must treat those they serve with, is to have two ears and treat members equally. Given the influence of the media nowadays and how it has been used to destroy some of us. The African National Congress has the responsibility of giving all of us a hearing, more particularly those that serve in the executive. This is very important because amongst us there are those that have exonerated themselves and have made themselves look clean when that has not been proven. Some of us have been to the Integrity Commission to answer on media reports when we had accounted to Parliament Inter-Ministerial Committee, Select Committee on Public accounts as well as Courts. ABSA had to push us through all the courts because they thought they deserved the tender. No one has ever spoken about the fact that President Zuma sent a delegation to Pietermaritzburg cause | have lost my brother and | could not come to Pretoria. He sent one of his advisors to tell me to cancel the CPS tender and DG Vusi Madonsela, Zane Dangor and Virginia Peterson recommended that this should not be done. They also informed us that even the previous tender was won by CPS.