He says the National Executive Committee's (NEC) step-aside resolution will return members morally and politically strong. In 2013, Dodovu was removed from all his positions after he was amongst several suspects accused in the murder case of Dr Kenneth Kaunda District's (Dr KK) ANC regional secretary, Abuti Chika, who was gunned down at his house in Klerksdorp in 2012. 

Dodovu says after being removed from all positions, he was left distraught but he never challenged the party by taking it to the courts without exhausting the internal remedies.

“Rather than fighting my own organisation, I [firstly] ensured that I allow the process of the court to be completed and once the process of the court was complete, I was [then] integrated [back] within the system of the organisation. Even if it was at a later stage [but] I explored all the internal processes of the organisation,” he adds.

Dodovu adds that it will be ill-disciplined of party members to mobilise and galvanise members of the ANC across the country against the step-aside resolution.

"I have also come to realise that patience pays. As the ANC has no dustbin to throw its cadres, I was appointed into the Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) and deployed as a member of parliament in the National Council of Provinces. As such, the ANC has deployed me in very crucial positions such as the Chairperson of the Select Committee on COGTA and as a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

"Morally, I speak with authority and absolute confidence on contentious issues facing our country, such as corruption. I have learned my lessons and now understand my organisation, the ANC, better,” Dodovu further adds.

Friday is the final day for several ANC members from Central South Africa who are affected by the adopted step-aside policy - including the embattled ANC Secretary-General (SG) Ace Magashule - to step aside from the party or face suspension.

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