CARL Niehaus is leaving the ANC because “it is full of spies and agents of imperialism and white monopoly capital, who have betrayed the ideals of the liberation movement”.
Following recently being expelled, he released a statement announcing his resignation on Friday, 23 December, after being a member for over 43 years.
Niehaus said he knew his resignation would be turned into a political propaganda by the media.
“It is with great sadness, and much pain in my heart, that I am issuing this statement in order to announce and clarify my decision to resign from the ANC,” it read.
He said since formally appealing his expulsion with the national disciplinary committee of appeal (NDCA), it was automatically suspended and his membership maintained.
“My so-called ‘expulsion’ is suspended until the NDCA ruled on my appeal. To put it straightforward and simply: I remained a member of the ANC, and with this media statement I am now resigning my membership,” he said, adding that there was no need to continue with the appeal since he had resigned.
Niehaus further said he had already e-mailed a copy of the statement to the office of the ANC secretary general.
“The ANC leadership’s increasing (eventually wholesale) acceptance of neoliberal economic policies, especially during the last five years of the disastrous reign of President Cyril Ramaphosa, finally destroyed any liberation impulse that still remained in the ANC,” he said, calling the outcomes of the 55th national conference, recently held in Nasrec, a disaster.
“The ANC is now finally dead and buried. All that remains is to erect the tombstone,” he said.
