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Original Post Date: 2007-12-02 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[I can’t stand Motlanthe. This is the asshole who said several years ago to an audience of blacks that in order to struggle against Capitalism you must first hate it. Communist scoundrel! Jan]
By Moshoeshoe Monare and Chiara Carter
ANC secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe has warned against fraudulent campaigning, buying votes, and the danger of a factional leadership for the ruling party.
Motlanthe is favoured by Jacob Zuma’s supporters to become ANC deputy president – a position that could see him take the helm if Zuma is charged with corruption.
There is just a fortnight to go until the ANC’s national conference in Polokwane.
The Mbeki camp on Friday launched an all-out moral offensive against ANC deputy president Zuma, who enjoyed the lion’s share of support in last weekend’s ANC provincial nominations.
Motlanthe cautioned that fraudulent campaigns, the punting of exclusive candidate lists and vote-buying could produce a weak party leadership and said this needed to be investigated by the new ANC leadership.
He warned there was a strong chance that the 2009 process of choosing ANC MPs would be subverted even more. The origin, compilers and funders of the election lists should be brought to book after the conference.
If Zuma became president, he would have to prove himself. “If he becomes president of the ANC, he can undermine or reinforce those fears by the way he leads,” he said.
Motlanthe said neither the conference, nor the absence of Zuma and Mbeki, would solve the ANC’s problems. Unless the ANC managed to get to grips with the internal conflict, it risked being paralysed and unable to successfully wage an election campaign in 2009.
n Deon de Lange reports the battle for the soul of the ANC took a vicious turn this week when national chairman Mosiuoa Lekota launched the fiercest verbal attack yet on Zuma, calling him a liar who had misled the party.
In an extraordinary interview with The Times, Lekota said it was Zuma who first suggested he be fired from his position as deputy president after his financial adviser Schabir Shaik was found guilty of fraud and corruption.
According to Lekota, both Zuma and Mbeki attended a meeting of the party’s extended national working committee where the issue was discussed.
“They briefed us, and in that briefing they said the president had suggested that perhaps the deputy president should resign. But comrade Zuma prevailed on the president by saying: ‘Rather you dismiss me, because if I resign it might suggest that I’m admitting guilt, when I’m not. Therefore, the best thing is that you dismiss me,'” Lekota is quoted as saying.
Lekota also accuses Zuma of going behind the party’s back when he involved himself in Shaik’s company, Nkobi Holdings, even after party leaders had rejected Shaik’s invitation to take a stake in what would later become a hugely successful venture.
According to Lekota, Shaik’s offer was discussed during a meeting in the 90s that included then ANC president Nelson Mandela, his deputy, Mbeki, party chairman Zuma, secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa, his deputy, Cheryl Carolus and treasurer Makhenkesi Stofile.
“When Shaik was on trial, suddenly evidence came forward that comrade Zuma had shares in Nkobi Holdings and all of us were shocked to hear it. Now we are telling our people these truths – that there is no conspiracy, that comrade Zuma was a part of a meeting that decided against getting involved in Nkobi Holdings. We are saying he (Zuma) went there alone,” the chairman suggests.
Lekota says the ANC did not benefit financially from Nkobi and that any money Zuma got from his association with the company never reached party coffers. “It ended with him (Zuma) and him alone,” Lekota is quoted as saying.
The newspaper further alleges that Zuma’s preferred nominations list for the top six positions in the party is falling apart with both foreign minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma – nominated for the chairmanship – and Speaker Baleka Mbete – nominated for deputy secretary – turning him down.
Zuma is currently abroad and was unable to comment.
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