Top brass vying for top ANC spots in Vhembe District

By Kaizer Nengovhela

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Tel: 011 593 3104 or Email: info@arb.org.za this weekend for a special regional elective council (REC) meeting. Two important positions, namely those of deputy chairperson and deputy secretary of the Vhembe region, need to be filled on Saturday.

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The two positions became vacant after the murder of the previous deputy secretary and

Collins Chabane mayor, Moses Maluleke, last year and the death of the deputy chairperson of the regional ANC, Adv Makonde Mathivha. The Vhembe region is Limpopo’s second-biggest ANC constituency.

The coming election has split the local ANC structures into two groups. One group wants the current mayor of Makhado Municipality, Samuel Munyai, to be elected as deputy chairperson, with Miyelani Chauke to serve as deputy secretary. Chauke is a councillor of the Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) but has come under fire after he was accused of illegally connecting water to his own business premises at Mhinga village. The faction supporting Munyai and Chauke’s appointment is led by the current regional chairperson of the ANC, Mr Tshitereke Matibe.

In the other corner is a faction led by the regional secretary of the ANC, Mr Rudzani Ludere. His group is backing VDM’s mayor, Dowelani Nenguda, as deputy chairperson, with the mayor of Collins Chabane Municipality, Shadrack Maluleke, as deputy secretary.

Ludere warned members not to use the congress to divide the party in the region. He said that the special REC should focus on the task at hand as they were gearing for the 2024 general election.

“We have no doubt that the regional leadership, in consultation with the provincial leadership, have done everything in their power to ensure that all is well and all systems are ready,” said Ludere.

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“Laat die volk bymekaarkom, dat Ek vir hulle water kan gee.” - Numeri 21:16.

DieHere sal voorsien. Hy beveel die volk om bymekaar te kom. Waar? By die put van Beër. Maar daar is dan geen bewys van water nie.

Die vorste word aangesê om met hul stokke in die sand te grawe, en terwyl hulle grawe, sing die volk liedere. Wanneer hulle sing en grawe, hoor ‘n mens die refrein van die lied: Spring op, o put! Sing daarvan! En kyk, terwyl dit alles aan die gang is, wel die bron uit die diepte op, vloei daar ‘n waterstroom oor die sand, sodat die volk kan drink en sing en hulle verwonder.

Ons dink hier aan die woorde van Paulus: “Want hulle het gedrink uit die geestelike rots wat gevolg het, en die rots was Christus.” (1 Korintiërs 10:4). Dit het in die woestyn soos ‘n onderaardse stroom geloop. Dit was daar, al kon hulle dit nie sien nie. Al wat hulle moes doen, was om met hul stawwe te grawe en die lied van geloof en gebed te sing.

Watter heerlike beeld van die blywende voorsiening deur die Heilige Gees wat God aan ons geskenk het. Wanneer ons sy toerusting ontvang, agtervolg die belofte van die lewe en saligheid ons dwarsdeur die woestynreis. Ons sien nie altyd die water nie, maar dit is onder ons voete, sodat ons onder die venynige strale van versoeking net kan grawe met die staf van die belofte, dan die lied van vertroue aanhef en die Heilige Gees sal soos lewende water opspring om in al ons behoeftes te voorsien (Johannes 7:38, 39).

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Om te grawe, is nie altyd aangename werk nie. Ruimte moet in die sand van ons lewe gemaak word, sodat daar plek kan wees vir sy Gees. As ons gewillig is, God is getrou om die fontein van die lewe in die dorsland te skenk (Jesaja 44:3).

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