The African National Congress (ANC) is still waiting for the real masters of the new political formation, Congress of the People, to show their faces, Fikile Mbalula, ANC national executive member, said on Sunday.

"We know that Terror and them are just pawns, who are basically being used and these people who said to be resigning every week are not the real people," Mbalula, the former leader of the ANC Youth League, said.

He told journalists in Bloemfontein the party was still waiting "for the masters to basically come out of the party".

Mbalula was speaking during a media briefing the ANC called in support of former ANCYL NEC member Saki Mofokeng who denied a newspaper report that he was leaving the ANC for COP.

"The recent article as published in the Sunday newspaper about me being part of the breakaway group from the ANC is very unfortunate and entirely not true," Mofokeng said.

Mbalula said, unlike Mofokeng, there were many people still sitting in the ANC "polishing their shoes" who the party know would leave the organisation.

He said the constant resignation of so-called ANC members had not "shaken" the African National Congress.

"The ANC is intact, it has thousands of cadre-ship and millions of people behind it and that we see with our interaction with our people. We are not shaken, we are unbreakable and we are indestructible."

”Unknown people from nowhere”

Mbalula said the ANC also do not know many of the ANC members of the "Great Trek" created in the media.

"Some of these people leaving the ANC, we do not know them, because they become famous because they are leaving, they are just unknown people from nowhere."

Mbalula said the media have made unknown people "real people" in the face of ANC supporters, but history would judge them if they have credibility or anything to offer in the new political landscape.

He said the ANC would contest everything which has been stolen from the movement and that include the name "Congress of the People", the new name for the Shikota-movement.

"All we asking from them is to please leave our colours, leave our organisation, leave our colourful history, the African National Congress," Mbalula said.

Sapa