Gordhan calls for mass mobilisation against Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle
This ANC is still our ANC, Gordhan tells mourners at a service for stalwart Ahmed Kathrada
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan has repeated his call for mass mobilisation against President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle. Gordhan — speaking at a memorial service for ANC stalwart Ahmed Kathrada — said he would take up the matter with the party’s national executive committee. “This ANC is still our ANC. We regret that comrade Kathy leaves us at a time when the ANC finds itself in trouble. But we cannot say we don’t know what the problems are or who the problem is‚” said Gordhan. “We need to get this organisation of ours into shape to be truly the people’s movement. When three senior officials of the ANC say‚ within 48 hours of each other‚ that ‘we don’t know where these decisions are made’‚ then there is a problem.” He said South Africans should “connect the dots” to establish whose bidding those behind the cabinet reshuffle were doing. Responding to accusations from a television news channel that he was agitating for an uprising‚ Gordhan boldly told guests at Kathrada’s ...
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