We must face state capture: Gwede Mantashe's brutally frank assessment of the ANC
'Linking regime change to state capture reflects the decline in our analytical capacity'
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has dismissed attempts to use regime change and white monopoly capital as scapegoats for state capture by the Gupta family. President Jacob Zuma had used a dodgy intelligence report — alleging former finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were lobbying business support for regime change in SA — to justify his removal of the pair. National Treasury under their leadership was at the forefront of the battle against the allegations of state capture, rent-seeking and corruption by the Gupta family. Mantashe’s diagnostic report, to be delivered on Friday afternoon at the ANC policy conference that has just got under way at Nasrec, said “linking regime change to state capture reflects the decline in our analytical capacity”. The report is scathing on state capture, saying the Gupta e-mails were damaging the movement and individual leaders fingered in them must explain themselves. “The series of e-mails that are released in tranches...
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