Thabo Mbeki letter to Paul Mashatile

The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula has confirmed as authentic the leaked letter by former President Thabo Mbeki, ...

It is only then that the ANC will consider a commentary on the contents of that letter and discussions with former President Mbeki,” says Mbalula. We are confident to turn around the municipality and ensure service delivery, and at the same time we’ll act decisively to ensure there is discipline in the organisation,” Mbalula adds. “The ANC finds it regrettable that a letter from former President Thabo Mbeki, directed at national to ANC has landed in the public domain through a leak.

Former president Thabo Mbeki has delivered a scathing critique of ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile, saying it is wrong for the governing party to use its ...

Email [email protected] or call 0860 52 52 00. In a letter dated March 29 and addressed to Mashatile, the party’s public representative in parliament, Mbeki compared the ANC’s actions to it voting against several motions of no confidence against former president Jacob Zuma at the height of state capture... Former president Thabo Mbeki has delivered a scathing critique of ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile and the ANC’s parliamentary caucus, saying it is wrong for the party to use its majority in parliament to veto the establishment of multiparty committees (MPCs) to probe the forex scandal at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm and corruption at Eskom.

The ANC will seek a meeting with former president Thabo Mbeki to explain a letter that appears to question the party's decision to “protect at all cost” ...

“The national officials will discuss the letter and will seek an audience with the former president. It is only then that the ANC will give a comment on the letter and discuss its contents. This is not the first letter, there are a number of letters that former presidents have written.

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In July last year, Mbeki was scathing of the ANC for failing on poverty alleviation and reducing inequality, saying that the party risked its own Arab spring if it did not address these burning issues. He used voting figures showing that the ANC’s margin of victory had declined precipitously from 2004 to the last local government election in 2021. The most quoted line is, “The ANC may not stand alone in the dock, but it does stand as accused number one.” He says that in nine months since former spy boss Arthur Fraser laid the Phala Phala charges at the Rosebank police station, “none of the questions has been answered. In October last year, he warned the ANC that it had to prepare for a fallout over the The recent report by SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter that no record of the declaration to Customs has been found of the $580,0000 deepens the puzzle about what exactly happened at Phala Phala farm.” “The way we (the ANC) voted on 13 December 2022 to block the process of the formation of an MPC [multi-party committee] communicated the unequivocal statement to the masses of the people that we do not want Parliament to seek and gain a deeper and comprehensive understanding of the Phala Phala matter.”

Johannesburg - Former ANC and South African President Thabo Mbeki has once again thrown the cat among the pigeons in a letter he wrote to the governing ...

It is equally without doubt that any wrong position we take with regard to the Phala Phala matter will also in equal measure or more, impact negatively on the standing of the ANC with many among the masses of our people!” Mbeki wrote to Mashatile. Without doubt, the wrong positions we took with regard to the Nkandla matter, impacted negatively on the standing of the ANC with many among the masses of our people. [Phala Phala scandal](https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mbeki-says-public-protector-report-on-phala-phala-not-final-didnt-clear-ramaphosa-f7cdf0a2-6601-41a5-bab0-8a3655e8d09f) that has consumed the party and President Cyril Ramaphosa for almost a year. “What should have followed this is that the National Assembly would have appointed a Multi-Party Committee (MPC) precisely to investigate the matter of whether the Comrade President did indeed have a case to answer! “As you know, the 3-person Panel appointed by Parliament concerning the Phala Phala matter decided that the Comrade President 'had a case to answer' with regard to a process of impeachment. “In this context, consistent with what Comrade President Ramaphosa said in the Open Letter I have cited, we must be honest with ourselves and understand that many among the masses of our people will entertain the suspicion that the Phala Phala matter includes corruption.