ANC wants report on Edward Zuma’s heckling of Gordhan before responding
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is awaiting a report on Edward Zuma’s heckling of Pravin Gordhan during Gordhan’s Gandhi Memorial Lecture on Friday night, before deciding whether to take action. But the party has expressed concern about party members heckling other party members. Zuma, the son of President Jacob Zuma, and other ANC members carried placards denouncing Gordhan, and disrupted him while he was speaking at Mountain Rise, Pietermaritzburg, but the former finance minister was unfazed by the protest and continued with his speech, telling Edward Zuma and his group of protesters that they must tell their "masters" that the looting of state coffers would not be allowed. "We must say boldly to those who are trying to derail us, that we will not allow that. We must say, stuff the brown envelope regardless of how much money is in it. We must learn something from [former deputy finance minister Mcebisi] Jonas and be able to say SA is not for sale."
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