PAC activists call for ousting of party leader amid GNU controversy

THE Pan African Congress of Azania’s (PAC) participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU) is among the reasons some of the organisation's members want its president, Mzwanele Nyhontso ousted at the party’s national elective congress.

- BONGANI HANS

The congress under way in Ggeberha ends on Sunday after the election of new leadership on Saturday.

Party insiders said some delegates have been instructed by branches to vote out Nyhontso and replace him with senior national executive committee (NEC) member, Mtutuzeli Mama.

Some members apparently claim that the participation of the PAC in the GNU was a betrayal of the struggle for land restitution, said party activists.

“The participation (in the GNU) was not canvassed amongst its rank and file, who feel that land reform is not the same thing as the return of the land wholesale to its people,” said the activists.

Nyhontso, who is the Land Reform and Rural Development minister, is accused of bringing the PAC into the GNU without the mandate of the party members.