-
ANC Secretary General briefed members of the media on the outcomes the ordinary NEC meeting that took place from 14-16 November 2025.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has stated emphatically that party President Cyril Ramaphosa will not leave his office before the end of his five-year tenure.
Mbalula was briefing the media on Tuesday regarding the outcome of last weekend’s National Executive Committee meeting at Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
His comments arise from questions triggered by Ramaphosa’s political overview report at the meeting where he dared his detractors to stop discussing his exit in secret, saying he would resign the next day if asked to do so by the NEC.
“It is tendencies within (the) party, which want to digress the entire organisation to focus on chasing ghosts, ghosts like Ramaphosa stepping down … that ghost it does not exist. Yes, it is a ghost chased by others and they believe in the figmentation of their imagination that it will arise,” says Mbalula.
Furthermore, Mbalula says that Former NEC member and Public Enterprises Minister, Malusi Gigaba, will have to step down from positions he holds in line with the party’s policy.
Gigaba has been charged with corruption related to a multi-billion-rand locomotives tender at Transnet and appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg alongside four co-accused on Tuesday.
Gigaba is a member of parliament and co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.
“Malusi case is being dealt with. We go the report ahead of this press briefing. I didn’t have a letter from Malusi, but from the ANC side, if Malusi is charged with corruption he will have to step aside. He will do that voluntary and there will be a statement to that effect. If by now, when I finish this press conference, I get a letter from him and giving me a report about what happened and after that we will issue a statement to that effect if. It is consistent with the ANC’s policy of step aside,” says Gigaba.
ANC briefing on the outcomes of NEC meeting
