Cape Town — Former president Thabo Mbeki has criticised the ANC over the way votes were cast in the National Assembly on the Phala Phala matter and a motion on Eskom.
Mbeki composed a 17-page letter to the party’s deputy president, Paul Mashatile.
He said that he was disturbed by the issue of the votes and how it affected the relationship between the ANC and the country’s citizens and the role of the party as defenders of the Constitution.
He said that the ANC wanted to protect Ramaphosa “at all costs”.
Mbeki mentioned how the report by SARS commissioner Edward Kieswetter “deepens the puzzle about what exactly happened at the Phala Phala farm”.
SARS confirmed that the record for the alleged $580 000 transaction between Sudanese businessman Hazim Mustafa and Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm “could not be found and /or may not be in existence”.
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————-‐——————-Thabo Mbeki writes a scathing letter addressed to Deputy President Paul Mashatile regarding, inter alia the Phala Phala matter, corruption and the flouting of parliamentary processes, all designed to protect President Ramaphosa pic.twitter.com/FWnWzDqT9L
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“I would presume that as ANC members we would assume that our president would not do and has not done anything which Parliament should not investigate in the course of the discharge of its constitutional duties,” Mbeki said.
“What message are we communicating to the masses of our people about the values and integrity of the ANC,?” he added.
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Compiled by Junaid Benjamin
