 Megashule, ANC leaders should focus on the issues that affect people. Suspended ANC Secretary-General Ace Megashule said South Africans were looking to the party's leadership to address issues affecting the country, including high unemployment. Megashule was speaking to Kaya FM's Femolo Motin on Tuesday evening on a number of topics, including his suspension. Megashule said he hoped the impasse surrounding his removal from the powerful party structure would be resolved. He described the debate about the step-aside rule, which is, essentially, that members charged for serious crimes should vacate their posts, as part of the body politic of the ANC. Megashule said one of the elders posed a question to him about why the ANC was in a hurry to implement the step-aside resolution when other resolutions that were adopted a long time ago by the ANC, including nationalizing the Reserve Bank, expropriation of land without compensation and creating a state bank, were not being implemented. I hope that it is politics. Our people are looking at us to address the issue of unemployment today. It is 42%. People are unemployed, Megashule said. He said there were problems about those who had been recently retrenched and how they were surviving. These are issues that the ANC as leader of society should be focusing on, Megashule said. Megashule said it is not true that all the resolutions of the ANC have not been implemented. He cited free basic education. We expect our employees to respect our resolutions and implement them, Megashule said. He said the basic income grant idea has been discussed for a number of years. You do not conclude by saying, without even trying, to say those resolutions are difficult to implement. Megashule said the ANC needed to address the needs of the poor. On his asbestos tender matter before the court, Megashule said he wished the case would go ahead and not take so long. I am ready. If I am charged I would prove in the court of law that the charges were flimsy. It is not for the first time. I have complained about state organs being used selectively against certain people, he said.