The African Independent Congress (AIC) has threatened to pull out of its coalition with African National Congress (ANC) if the governing party in the Eastern Cape continues to undermine the conditions of this agreement.
The AIC says it agreed with the ANC national leadership that Matatiele would be incorporated back into KwaZulu-Natal from the Eastern Cape.
However, AIC president Mandla Galo says the ANC in the province has been issuing statements to the contrary.
The AIC recently played a crucial role in helping DA-led councils in the Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro’s to pass their annual budgets. Galo says they mandated some of their councillors to vote with the Democratic Alliance to punish the ANC.
“The ANC in the Eastern Cape made an annoying statements undermining the intelligence of the people of Matatiele saying they are not going to allow the people of Matatiele to be under the province of KZN then we very much annoyed.”
ANC provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi reacts.
“We are perturb by the attitude of the AIC , the party has problems on the basis they have with Nelson Mandela wherein they are not services their constituency which by enlarge is supposedly been the people who are poor and so on therefore we stand to benefit nothing from that agreement so they are betraying the people of the Nelson Mandela who have put that particular individual councillor to be in the position of deciding in the municipality and in contrast they will take one issues coming from Nelson Mandela to Matatiele issue.”
