The big "unshakable" elephant threatened by its own offsprings!!!!!!

The 4th local government elections are over a month away and different political parties presented their manifestos, trying to convince masses to vote for their candidates. All political organisations that are going to compete at the polls on the 18th May have submitted their candidates list to the Independent Electoral Commission.

However, it has emerged that some wards are not happhy about names submitted by their parties to the IEC. The most affected is the African National Congress, that in the past few weeks has been faced by many protests by disgruntled members in various wards around the country. The devastated members are complaining that the names that appear on the IEC candidates list are not the ones they forwarded to the ANC head quaters. It is the ANC policy for its members in each ward to choose a person that they want to vote for as their councillor in the elections showdown on May 18.

The angry ANC members claim that Luthuli house has manipulated the candidates list and imposed candidates that the membership do not want to be their councilors. The unsatisfied members have now decided to forward their names to the IEC as independent candidates and prepared to compete against their very own political party at the polls. ANC top leaders from Luthuli house, in the past few days have been campaigning in the complaining wards.

The ANC members who have decided to stand in for the upcoming local government elections as independent candidates are definately a force to be reckon with to their party. Majority of them are the very same names that masses forwarded to the ANC HQs and the national office decided to drop them without consulting with the membership that submitted those names. Just after the ANC's victory in the 2009 national elections, president Jacob Zuma said " the ANC is a big elephant that can never be shaken by anyone".

If the protests we have recently seen around the country are anything to go by, I fully doubt that Mr Jacob Zuma can confidently repeat his 2009 "unshakable big elephant" statement.  May 18 is around the corner and the unshakable big elephant's offsprings seem determined to shake their parent who is definately feeling the heat.