Zweli Mkhize will not say if damning claims in book on Jacob Zuma will come up at ANC meeting
ANC treasurer-general — and aspiring presidential candidate — Zweli Mkhize would not commit when asked if the party’s top six would engage President Jacob Zuma on his damning links with the underworld and his alleged tax evasion.Addressing a contingent of media personnel over breakfast in Durban on Wednesday morning‚ Mkhize said he could not state for sure that the issue would be on their next meeting’s agenda.Journalist Jacques Pauw’s explosive new book unmasked Zuma’s darkest secrets and links to some of the country’s known underworld criminals. One described the President as "a gangster like us".The revelations have cast a huge shadow over Zuma’s already troubled presidency."As members of that leadership [the Top Six] we often ask not once but several times on specific issues if they are topical. We do that. I can’t say we will ask this or we will ask that and so on‚" said Mkhize."You are referring to something that has just come out a couple of days ago and I can never say to yo...
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