Organizations hire spokesperson for a reason, one of which is to protect itself from its members who speak before they think or are just bad speakers. Well one would expect Zizi Kodwa the national spokesperson of the ANC to be the one doing the talking in the ANC but no you have everyone talking and in the process insulting people.
First you come across Fikile Mbalula this man holds office as minister of sport but nothing on his twitter is about sports. He is forever attacking people or trying to justify the actions and decisions of the ANC and the question we have to ask ourselves is who appointed him as the spokes person of the ANC? The impression one gets from his tweets is that he is speaking on behalf of the ANC and the downside to that is that he is just too personal about issues to be speaking on behalf of the ANC.
When you thought the ANC was having it bad with Fikile maam Bathabile Dhlamini came into the picture, the first proud anti female women’s league president I have ever heard of. When she came out gun blazing protecting the president and blaming everyone but herself and the ANCWL for their falure to address this ugly past it occurred to me that maybe she should have kept quite because it is obvious she had nothing to add or criticize. She insulted women by insinuating they had no agency of their own, this made many people question the stance of women’s league as a fully functional body or whether it was nothing but a bunch of women waiting on a man to tell them what to do.
Cde Gwede Mantashe you are the secretary for heaven sake, can you stick to your job. This will save you from sounding detrimental to the ANC and its leadership which you happen to be part of. So you went out there and told the country Zuma cost ANC the elections, you have said a lot of bad things already so just stick to your job and let the “spokesperson” speak.
To comrade Baleka “1Billion” Mbete I hope the last time you went out there and spoke your mind you learned speaking for an organization is a profession. I wish I could let the President himself get away but I can’t, he was criticized for reading speeches he didn’t understand which was safer than when he spoke his mind. I remember that process of free speech Mr President promised people the visit of Jesus Christ, he told us white people are racist, in short he said a lot of things leaders should never say. And since the ANC is trying to rebuild itself it will be safer for the party to listen to itself before any engagement whether spoken or written.
Article By Dimo wa Moraswi Sekele
Dimo is a writer, poet, serial activist and has Entrepreneurship as a career of choice. Self taught Videographer and photographer
