Gwede Mantashe expresses concern about DA’s international relations
The ANC is worried that the DA’s relationships with Taiwan and Israel are undermining government policy, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday. Mantashe’s comments follow a visit by a DA delegation to Taiwan and another visit, to Israel, by DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Mantashe said the DA was consolidating relationships with parties hostile to the SA and the ANC. "The DA is paying inherent attention to undermining the ANC ... and the sovereignty of the country," he told a roundtable discussion with editors on Tuesday. Mantashe said the DA had close ties with the DPP in Taiwan and Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga’s visit to the country was preceded by a visit by a delegation from the DA. He said the DPP, which was described as a secessionist party, found it "attractive" to work with the DA to undermine the one-China policy followed by the South African government, among many others. "We are more concerned about that relationship and what influence ... it [will] have in our po...
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