BMD leadership seek members� direction
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Friday May 27, 2016 10:56
He says the leadership is consulting members around the country so as to get the party to function.
Mmolotsi and party president Ndaba Gaolathe have started holding members’ consultative meetings, this month to August.
Mmolotsi kick-started the meetings last weekend with the southern region in Kanye.
The differences in the party’s NEC have become so huge that members and leaders have in the past months been attacking each other on local radios and newspapers. So the only way out, the Kanye meeting agreed, was to follow the BMD constitution, which states that only the NEC and one third of the constituencies can call for a special congress if they had written to the NEC.
“It is true the NEC is dysfunctional and there is no way the party can function when the head is not well. The members are the ones who can guide us now because the constitution empowers them to do so. The reason why we have to go around having meetings with members about the party’s problems is because they can accuse us of failing to inform them. The NEC differences could lead to the collapse of the movement if not attended to in time,” Mmolotsi said.
He said although the NEC does call for meetings, they mostly fail to agree in those meetings because of internal problems. “The NEC should come up with resolutions to take the party forward,” he said. The vice president said what pains most is when some NEC members start to attack the party president Gaolathe openly in the media about issues they agreed on internally.
“That on its own shows that those members have their own party president somewhere. In politics, when a president is under attack, his movement also gets affected. There is no way the movement can grow or become effective if its president is not respected,” he said.
The southern region told Mmolotsi that there is need for a special congress for Sidney Pilane’s membership to be clarified and called for the suspension of their party secretary general Gilbert Mangole and party chairperson Nehemiah Modubule.