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| CROSS SECTION OF MEMBERS AT CONFERENCE |
The Social Democratic Front, in South Africa, SDF SA, is requesting the limitation of the mandate of the party’s chairman to four year
renewable once. The party’s leadership also wants officials of all party
structures to also have term limits.
This is among a series of motions that
would be filed in to the NEC, during the the SDF convention billed for 2017 in
Cameroon.
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| PAUL NKAMANKENG, MILTON TAKA,, MARC GBAFFOU |
The SDF SA leadership and members from all the
regions of South Africa voted those motions when the party members met at
the emperors Palace Convention Center Johannesburg,
October 15 2016 for their
first ever Regional conference in preparation also for the 2018 elections.
Among other issues, SDF SA would be tabling a motion
to request that the National Executive Committee considers scraping the special
congress to elect a presidential candidate.
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| MEMBERS IN COMMISSION |
SDF SA officials saw the need for
the Chairman of the party to automatically be the presidential candidate as the
said candidate would to have enough time for campaigns whenever the electorate
is convened.
The SDF SA conference also agreed that it is
imperative for the separation for powers especially within the administrative
arms of the party. It was voted that the Chairman of the National Executive
Committee should not be the same person handling the position of Chairman of
the National Advisory Council as is currently the case. “We always try to sell the
position we hold to NEC with evidence, support and motivations.
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| CAPE TOWN DELEGATION |
We are bringing
in cooperate governance best practice that would work from public to private
sector and political organizations. You cannot be an executive and advice
yourself.
NAC was created so that some
oversight authority was in place in the organization to check the excesses of
the executive power. The moment you are playing an oversight an executive role
then there is a problem. We are not targeting anyone but proposing the putting
in place of measures that would make the party stronger,” SDF SA Chairman, Milton Taka said.
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| SDF SA's SG ROLAND CHEBEFUH |
One of the motions to NEC included the organisation of the structures of the Socialist Youth organs with an appeal for a working
environment to be created by NEC and for the rules responsibilities of the
powers of this organ to be clearly defined.
A guest at the conference was the Chairman of the
African Diaspora Forum, ADF, (a federation of migrant associations in SA) who said it
was still possible for the SDF to take over power in Cameroon. “The Sdf needs
to organize itself, mobilizing the people and changing the way they did in the
past . They need new strategies and have to approach people
and encourage Cameroonians to register, vote and defend their votes.
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| YOUTH LEAGUE COMMISSION |
Remember that some live out of their country
because of failed leadership. We see the experience here in SA where the
President is held accountable. This can happen in Cameroon.
These are the issues the SDF has to take back
home. From what I have seen and heard the hope of Cameroonians is still in the
SDF. With the work being done at this stage I think the SDF will definitely
rise to power,” said the Ivorian born Marc Gbaffou.
“They key is to unite the Cameroonian people
especially the opposition. There is need
to redefine the struggle, empower the civil society and organize the labour
unions. The system in Zimbabwe is like that in Cameroon where the bourgeois enjoy
looting from the national coffers, where the President has been there for 36
years and 34 years in Cameroon. They rule the country like a kingdom.
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| MORE DELEGATES |
As I said
we need to have a coalition and unite the people to oust those who continue to
loot,” stated the spokesperson of the Zimbabwean opposition, Movement for Democratic Change
MDC in SA, Nicolas Mabhena.
SDF SA leadership encouraged members all over the globe to begin
preparations to attend the convention billed for 2017 in Cameroon.
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