OpinionANC electoral support dwindles as Mbalula's blunders deepen party turmoil:

A right our people bled for cannot be taken away by a screen design.

— Fikile Mbalula, speaking after the Constitutional Court ruling on candidate inclusion; he argued that a right his people bled for cannot be taken away by a screen design.

To come to the Constitutional Court to argue against the enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of South Africans does not sit easily besides the understanding of intent

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general; spoken at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg after the ANC's victory against the IEC on including its candidates in six municipalities

The public's view is that the ANC has moved away in terms of their main focus from that of public service to that of personal service, of personal interest. And that's an exceptionally difficult perception to turn around, and especially if you have to do it in a very short space of time.

— Professor Dirk Kotzé, Professor of Political Sciences at UNISA, discussing the ANC's challenges ahead of the local elections (in interview with 702's Aubrey Masango).

"Mr Mbalula convened the meeting envisaged in clause 9.6.5 at a hotel in Johannesburg and instructed the officials to remove my name," Lungisa says.— Lungisa says, in the context of his court papers alleging that Mbalula personally instructed officials to remove his name.

You also reported about the issue of mayoral candidates who are not on the list; that is an error, and it will be resolved because they belong [on] the PR [proportional representation] list.

— Fikile Mbalula said this about the error in the mayoral candidate list and its planned correction.

The immediate family is the most dangerous because it is the most reasonable voice society is likely to listen to.

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general, told journalists at a briefing at the party's headquarters, warning ANC veterans against publicly criticising the current leadership; he argued that the immediate family is the most dangerous voice because it is the most reasonable voice society is likely to listen to.