PARTY VETERANS
Thabo Mbeki: Rot-infested ANC needs to be liberated
President Jacob Zuma should resign immediately, the ANC’s veterans and some of its current leaders resolved on Sunday, blaming him for the "rot" in the governing party. The party has been captured by a dominant faction, which was not the ANC in terms of its values and what it does from day-to-day, former president Thabo Mbeki said at the veterans’ three-day national consultative conference at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. The gathering — from which the ANC leadership distanced itself — drew two former presidents (Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe), party stalwarts, national executive committee members, cabinet ministers and representatives of the party’s alliance partners and civil society. The conference was aimed at "saving" the ANC at a time when the party’s electoral fortunes and moral grip on society are dwindling rapidly. Mbeki, who has largely steered clear of internal ANC politics since he was recalled by the party as president, said the ANC national executive committee had d...
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