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Zwelithini calls on ANC to bury hatred among members

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King Goodwill Zwelithini has challenged African National Congress members and leaders to bury the hatred leading up to the party’s 54th National Conference and extend an olive branch to each other.

The party’s top six leaders led by party President, Cyril Ramaphosa, paid a courtesy visit to the King to report to his majesty on the outcome of the conference.

It was an attempt by the Zulu King to try and facilitate a meeting between rival ANC members to smoke the peace pipe.

King Goodwill asked the ANC leaders and the party’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial leaders, including provincial chairperson Sihle Zikalala and former provincial chairperson Senzo Mchunu, to shake hands and extend an olive branch to each other.

As a word of advice to the ANC President, the King called on Ramaphosa to lead by example and embrace even those members who did not want him elected as party President.

The King also called on the newly elected ANC leaders never to abandon their commitment towards the poor.

He also called on the new leadership to move with speed in the implementation of ANC policies adopted at the party’s 54th National Conference.

While Ramaphosa committed the newly elected ANC leadership to deal with internal squabbles facing the ruling party, he re-iterated that the ruling party will implement the conference’s resolution of land expropriation without compensation.

Meanwhile, the ANC’s top leadership presented the King with three Ankole Wathusi Cattle, a Kenyan Masai breed.

The top six will also pay homage to the late Presidents of the ANC.

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