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Mantashe distances ANC from Sisulu in election ‘war-room’ legal drama
Despite death threats, a PR practitioner is fighting for R2.3m she says she is owed by the ANC for work done ahead of last year’s elections
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has distanced the party from Shaka Sisulu after he was implicated in a scandal involving trying to tarnish the images of opposition parties in the run-up to the 2016 local government elections. "Shaka Sisulu is not an employee of the ANC‚ he doesn’t work for the ANC [so] I don’t think we should be responding to that issue. It’s not an ANC issue. Here‚ a general manager of the ANC is implicated and we are dealing with that matter‚" said Mantashe ahead of the party’s lekgotla. Sisulu‚ implicated in a case in which a PR practitioner Sihle Bolani is seeking R2.2m for work she did for the ANC’s election war-room last year‚ said he believed the court case against the ANC was intended to extort money from the party. Bolani mentioned in court papers that Sisulu convened a meeting in a Johannesburg hotel in May last year where the media team was introduced to ANC General Manager Ignatius Jacobs. In her report on the operation attached to her application‚ ...
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