Gungubele likens ANC to a Rolls-Royce driven by ‘drunkards'

ANC NEC member Mondli Gungubele says the party remains popular but has lost support because voters no longer trust its leaders. ANC national executive committee members Mondli Gungubele and Thandi Mahambehlala with Western Cape Provincial Task Team member Thandi Makasi at the manifesto launch in Khayelitsha on Saturday. ANC National Executive Committee member Mondli Gungubele likened the ANC at the weekend to a Rolls-Royce, which was admired by everyone, but it was driven by drunkards to the dislike of the potential passengers. Addressing a manifesto launch in Khayelitsha on Saturday, Gungubele said there was no alternative to the ANC. 'It is us who make it have the alternative. The ANC is like a Rolls Royce, which everyone wants to be its passenger but it is driven by drunkards who are doubted by passengers who then choose a Tazz,' he said. He charged that no one was against the ANC but people were worried about its leaders. 'No one still needs to be convinced about the ANC philosophy. Millions of South Africans are converts of the ANC. All they want is for the ANC to translate their material conditions. ' According to Gungubele, what their organisation was confronted with was the question of realising its aims and objectives. He said the ANC branches and regions should not just function but must be based on the state of the people in the areas where they operated. 'This organisation was formed to serve the people. Once this organisation does not serve the people, they abandon it,' he said before referring to the years of ANC dwindling support in the Western Cape. Gungubele also said the ANC had lost popular support because it lost the trust and confidence of the people. He blamed this on what he termed as drunk drivers of the Rolls Royce, whom the passengers did not trust in case the vehicle rolled on a curve. 'When people want to ride on the Rolls Royce, there are thieves who are not even ashamed to want to be drivers. Maybe, they should be passengers because passengers know when it is thieves who are driving it is like drunkards because chances of it rolling on a curve are high. ''When we elect you we don't give you a position. We submit you to a position because the position has its expectations in the eyes of society. ' He told his audience that once the ANC takes over Cape Town, it works towards improving the lives of the people and not tampering with what was working. Gungubele also promised that the ANC councillors would report monthly to the residents on their council work. 'We would not pretend everything is broken. We will not replace officials in their positions. We are not to remove South Africans who do their work well. '