Stalwarts of the ANC have expressed their concern at the political crisis facing the country. In a statement released on Tuesday, as signatories of the "For the Sake of Our Future" document‚ they raised a number of questions about the country’s political situation. "How can we, as a nation, lurch from crisis to crisis‚ and state there is no ‘crisis’; how can we have a situation when our judiciary is forced to intervene in matters that in any properly functioning constitutional democracy it would be unnecessary to do so‚ stretching from Nkandla through to the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa)?" they asked. "How can we survive the so-called ‘Hawks’‚ whose role is ‘priority crime investigation’ but are blind to the unacceptable levels of major corruption in companies and state-owned entities within our economy; how can we have the president of the ANC who ignores its own constitution?" The stalwarts have met the leadership of the ANC to express their concern at the level of ...
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