ANC's Nyanda warns against working with Zuma, says he'll finish job of destroying party

JOHANNESBURG - Senior African National Congress (ANC) leader, General Siphiwe Nyanda, has urged the party not to work with its former president, Jacob Zuma, warning that he would finish his job of destroying the organisation.

Nyanda, who also served as a minister, has penned a letter about the advent of the MK Party and the ANC's role in failing to reign in Zuma during his time as its president.

He said that the ANC had been left carrying a begging bowl, scrambling for coalition partners.

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Nyanda said that the party would have never needed to do this were it not for Zuma and his disastrous leadership or had the party acted resolutely during that era.

The ANC's elections outcome is one that many of its stalwarts believed they would never see in their life time.

Nyanda, describing it as humiliating in a letter to the party’s current leadership, sets out how the ANC over recent years sealed its own fate.

He said that there seemed to be a rush by some for the ANC to work with Zuma and his party, making an impassioned plea for it to ignore what he called an outrageous idea.

Nyanda claims that its become clear that Zuma led the ANC despite not sharing in its values on ideas like non-racialism, non-sexism and in a constitutional democracy.

He also criticised the ANC for ignoring attempts by veterans to address the Zuma issue sooner.

Nyanda said that now was the time for the ANC to accept that the people had spoken.

The ANC NEC will meet on Thursday to deliberate on the way forward.