No-confidence vote is ‘a waste of time by reckless opposition’, ANC says
The ANC in eThekwini and the Eastern Cape has read the riot act to MPs, warning them against siding with the opposition
The ANC in eThekwini has read the riot act to five of its seven members deployed in Parliament‚ laying down the law and ordering them not to abandon President Jacob Zuma ahead of a planned no-confidence vote. Speaking during a regional executive committee media briefing in Durban on Wednesday‚ regional ANC secretary Bheki Ntuli said the committee viewed the motion as having all the hallmarks of idiocy‚ describing it as a waste of time and resources by a reckless opposition. "Its intention is only to cast aspersions and innuendos on the ANC and integrity of the person of the President. The President is a strategic hill [sic] and targeting him as the head of the organisation is intended to destroy the ANC," Ntuli said. "We call upon all eThekwini deployees into the national Parliament to rebuff this counter-revolutionary agenda and attempts at regime change by political stealth." He said the province had already met five of the MPs‚ who come from the eThekwini region‚ to stress the im...
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