The ANC Veterans League is saddened by the untimely death of its Provincial\nSecretary, Dr Phumza Dyantyi who passed away on the 7th December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Phumza Dyantyi was also a former MEC of Heath in the Eastern Cape\nand a Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comrade Dyantyi joined the underground structures of the ANC in the\nEastern Cape and later skipped the country to be trained as a member of Umkhonto\nwe Sizwe in Angola in 1978. She received her military training at the ANC camp\nin Novo Katenga in Angola and survived the bombardment of the camp by the racist regime forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comrade Dyantyi was later sent to Cuba where she completed her\ntraining in Medicine. She was later deployed by the ANC to work at the public\nhospital in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the ANC and other political organisations were unbanned in 1990, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cde Dyantyi returned to South Africa and played an important role of\nrebuilding structures of the ANC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cde Dyantyi became the first Provincial Secretary of the ANC Veterans\nLeague when it was launched in 2009. She played an important role in building\nstructures of the Veterans League, and, as a member of the Provincial Executive\nCommittee of the Eastern Cape, sharply raised issues that affected the\nintegrity of the ANC in society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Veterans League as a constitutional structure of the ANC has the\nauthority to intervene on all issues that affect the integrity, values and\nethics of our glorious movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cde Dyantyi was very energetic, multi-skilled and wore many hats. We\nare reliably informed that she also served on the following Boards: Mida Private\nSchool, Nelson Mandela Museum, Ntinga Development Agency and the Government\nEmployees Medical Scheme (GEMS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of her compassion about the welfare needs and the plight of\nformer ex combatants, she was once a member of the Advisory Council on Military\nVeterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comrade Dyantyi, you left us too early. Your energy, commitment and\ndedication will be missed. You left us when, as the ANC Veterans League, we are\nassuming our important and strategic role of uniting and renewing our glorious\nmovement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are committing ourselves to establish and build active and credible\nbranches and regions of the Veterans League. At the second conference in October\n2017, the Veterans League took a resolution that the League should establish\nbranches and regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cde Dyantyi, at the ANC Veterans League\u2019s Special Executive Committee\u2019s\nvirtual meeting which took place on the 28th of November 2020, you were not\nable to attend because you were in hospital. We resolved to humbly request the\nANC\/NWC \/NEC that we should convene – together with the other structures of the\nmovement and the Civil Society – a Special Conference on Unity and Renewal of\nthe ANC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Veterans of the ANC, we are assuming our responsibility to unite\nand renew our glorious movement. We are committing ourselves to renew the ANC\nas the most effective force for social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The proposed special conference will focus on rebuilding the ANC that\nis united in action. Properly executed, this strategic task will have the\neffect of making the ANC an organisation which is fit for purpose of leading and\ncontinuing the process of democratising our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Veterans of the movement, we are gravely concerned about a culture\nthat is developing which is totally unANC – a culture that seeks to undermine our\nvalue systems, principles and revolutionary ethics and morality. There is an anti\nsocial behavior in society and no visible or tangible progress with regard to\nthe task of the progressive repurposing of state institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uniting and Renewing our glorious movement is sacrosanct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cde Dyantyi, in honour of your memory, as members of the Veterans\nLeague, we will also help to rebuild branches of the ANC as centres for\ncommunity development. We will be part of those who will roll out mass\npolitical education campaigns and heal the divisions within our organisation\nand the Alliance, and contribute to ending all factional activities in our democratic\nmovement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cde Dyantyi we shall not disappoint you. We will ensure that our\nglorious movement recommits to the implementation of the resolutions of the\n54th National Conference, that corruption, factionalism and dishonesty\ncontradict our mission and damage our capacity to serve the people and use the\ncountry\u2019s resources to achieve development and transformation. We support the\nreaffirmation of the NEC decision taken on the 30th<\/sup> August this year\nthat those who are found wanting and charged for corruption and criminal\noffences should step aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Veterans of the movement, we have the responsibility to cleanse,\nunite and renew our glorious movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lala Ngoxolo Cde Dyantyi<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lala Ngoxolo Qhawe lama Qhawe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ANC Veterans League is saddened by the untimely death of its Provincial Secretary, Dr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anc","category-anc-veteran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.ipan.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Dr-Phumza-Dyantyi.jpg?fit=750%2C750","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}