The African National Congress (ANC) in Cape Town has a new leader. Ndithini Leon Tyhido was on Friday announced to serve as a councillor in the City of Cape Town Council and has been appointed as the new Leader of the Opposition. This after the former opposition leader in Cape Town, Banele Majingo, jumped ship and moved to the Democratic Alliance (DA).
COURTESY: X - @myancwcThe ANC said its Provincial Executive Committee held a special
meeting on Thursday evening.
‘’The meeting was called not only to fill a vacancy but to
reassert the ANC's historic mission to build a non-racial, just, and equal
society…This appointment is not symbolic it is a political realignment that
returns the leadership of the caucus to the organised structures of the
movement and aligns it with the strategic direction of the Regional Executive
Committee,’’ it said in a statement.
‘’This deployment is a call to struggle. A call to resist
the neoliberal governance of the DA-led City of Cape Town. A call to defend the
poor. A call to rebuild people’s power in our communities. It is a call to end
the tale of two cities where leafy suburbs flourish while the Cape Flats is
left to fend for itself under conditions of poverty,crime, drugs, and despair,’’
it added.
Tyhido first served the Trevor Vilakazi Branch (Ward 93), and
moved to the ANC Regional Executive Committee where he led political education,
to his three-term tenure as Chairperson of the Khayelitsha Development Forum
(KDF)
‘’He brings not just political clarity, but technocratic
competence and strategic understanding of how to confront inequality in
practice… With Comrade Ndithini Tyhido at the helm, the ANC is reclaiming its
rightful role as the voice of the people, the conscience of the poor, and the
force for transformation in this City,’’ concluded Khalid Sayed, ANC Western Cape
spokesperson.
Done By: Mitchum George
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