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The “allegations” made by political analyst and former president  Thabo Mbeki’s brother Moeletsi Mbeki about the ANC and President Jacob Zuma at the Cape Town Press Club are disappointing and baseless, the presidency said on Wednesday.

   “Political analysts should challenge President Zuma on the work that government does and not resort to personal attacks which rather indicate deep-rooted bitterness,” Zuma’s spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement.

   Addressing the Cape Town Press Club on Tuesday, Mbeki reportedly said Zuma did not have the will or the ability to steer South Africa out of its economic and political difficulties, and that the  ANC was not the “future for us”.

   “The ANC is losing its voters. A few years ago it had 70%  of the electorate and today it has 62%.

   “Even [ANC Youth League president Julius] Malema — who finds it hard to do this kind of simple arithmetic — pointed out that Zuma is losing votes for the ANC,” he said.

   He also criticised Zuma for not taking action on Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on the police’s dodgy office lease deal.

   “We have to ask ourselves what is the future of SA. It is not the ANC any more. Like all liberation parties that have been in government, they are very corrupt and incompetent... which is what you see every day.”   

South Africa’s future was grim under the ANC government because of its refusal to modernise the monetary system, or the labour force, to keep up with the times.

   Until recently, the ANC had been headed by the leadership that came out of Fort Hare University in the 1940s.

   “You do not have that calibre of leadership any more. You get the song-and-dance brigade like Malema and Zuma, who say they are providing leadership,” Mbeki reportedly said.

   Maharaj said the high levels of awareness in the country about corruption were indicative of the seriousness with which this “scourge is treated”.

   Government played a leading role in raising this awareness through the actions of law enforcement agencies against corruption.

   Zuma had directed the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate a number of national and provincial government departments, municipalities, and state-owned enterprises, which was  an indication of zero tolerance against corruption, he said.

   “Several other state agencies are also focusing on rooting out this scourge. Allegations that the President or government are soft  on corruption are baseless and mischievous.”    Regarding Madonsela’s report on police buildings leases, the President had to follow due process.

   “He cannot deal with such a report in a haphazard or ad-hoc manner. He will make his decisions or actions known once he has concluded the process.

   “We have no idea what gives people who are not even close to the  process the audacity to start proclaiming that the President will not act on the recommendations or findings of the report,” Maharaj said.

   In another statement, ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu condemned as  “disrespectful and disingenuous, the latest barrage of unfair criticism” of Zuma and the ANC-led government by Moeletsi Mbeki.

   “With his political roots having been nurtured in the ANC, Moeletsi has chosen not only to betray noble principles and beliefs  held by his late struggle icon father Govan Mbeki but has decided to embark on a role of being the voice of the opposition, instead of making a meaningful contribution within structures of the ANC and government in a quest to build a better country for all South Africans.

   “We find Moeletsi’s latest outburst, charging that ’the ANC is not the future for South Africa’ and that the President was merely about ’song and dance’, disingenuous and misinformed in the extreme, displaying characteristics of desperation to rubbish the ANC, its President and government,” Mthembu said.

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Jul 27, 2011

Makhalanjalo

Justice delayed is justice denied comrade. You should know it better. He should have long acted
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Jul 27, 2011

Makhalanjalo

On the one hand we all know that Zuma is a compromised leader. He takes his calls from many quarters. He is insecure and will do everything to protect himself against the 2012 inevitables. He has yes presided over a declining ANC. That is the reason he went house to house in Cape Town to undo the declination. His biggest undoing is his inability to do and act swiftly. He will be remembered as the president who, when called to act, did not do so. Unlike his predecessors, they acted when it was necessary and are still reverred by the majority. Julius is one such fan of Thabo Mbeki these days.
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Jul 27, 2011

Fizas

The longer Zuma takes to respond to the corruption allegation pertaining buildings leased by SAPS the more Mbeki’s views are true
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Jul 27, 2011

VanDerMerwe

What Moeletsi is saying here is very true...
The ANC under JZ & Juju is directionless.
Never before have we seen so much corruption.
Every morning we wake up to a new scandal.
If its not Guptas, its Sicelo, if not its JUJU, if not its Cele, if not its JZ himself...
These guys want to out-do one another.
We are more than a Banana Republic!

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Jul 27, 2011

Sekwanele

"Jackson Mthembu condemned as “disrespectful and disingenuous, the latest barrage of unfair criticism” of Zuma and the ANC-led government by Moeletsi Mbeki."

It doesn't take a genious to know that Zuma is not fit to be a leader, Mr Mthembu!! Zuma is not acting now cause maybe he's looking for loopholes in that report, that can save his chommie from the axe!


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Jul 27, 2011

mjimara

As far as I know it is not the firts time that Moeletsi, an influentail intellectual in his own right, has raised issues with the ANC, its leadership, acts of corruption by some of the ANC leaders, and a lack of constructive approach to sloving the economic problems of unemployment and poverty in South Africa. He was very vociferous when his own brother, Thabo, was the president - he attacked his brother's govt too. His approach then was intellectaual and academic. I have observed that of late he calls a spade a spade and he mentions people by name. For example during an interview with one television show he was very literal in his utterances - he did not try to hide behind the sometimes cumbersome intellectual articulation of issues. He used laymans language to be precise, as he does in this instance. Therefore, I think Mr Mthembu and Mr Maharaj are pretending not know what Moeletsi's stances are and has been.

I think it is unfortunate and very ingenuous of Mr Mthmbu to bring the late Cde Govan Mbeki (may his soul rest in peace) into this. He is not playing the ball. I believe that Cde Govan would not like what is happening in the ANC, particulalry corruption alleagtions against cadres of the ANC because this is not what he stayed in jail more than 20 years for.

Mr Mthembu and Mr Mharaj must provide solutions facing our liberation movement and stop engaging reactively.
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Jul 27, 2011

Nonogirl

“The ANC is losing its voters. A few years ago it had 70% of the electorate and today it has 62%.
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I like the fact that the ANC doesn't argue against this point. I wonder what they think the reason for this decline in votes is. Is it because people are not voting? Is it because people don't trust the ANC anymore, making voters feel guilty about the struggle is not working maybe? I just wonder what the think. Do they honestly believe that after 17 years of democracy and being in power that they have done an excellent job? The current leadership has been by far the most corrupt, they have proven that they don't really care about the man on the street as long as they get some cash in their pockets, purses, or even trust funds.
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Jul 27, 2011

Mndende

Moeletsi for President. The ANC IS NOT FOR US AT ALL...NEVER ESPECIALLY WITH AN IMBECILE LIKE MALEMA CALLING THE SHOTS WE SHALL MAKE HISTORY IN AFRICA....OFF COURSE DOESNOT LIKE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM NO WONDER THEY ARE GOING DOWH THE SH#IT DRAIN...NXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Jul 28, 2011

Vhamsanda

Moeletsi should know very well that ANC lost voters after his brother formed COPE hence the decline in ANC numbers.However, we are busy recouping the losses and his brother will be back in the fold also.
By the way Moeletsi is a Mbeki.
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Jul 28, 2011

AK1234

Who cares what Moeletsi is saying!!!
We all know he is trying to defend his brother's mess so he also must go to hell.

He is just a lost idiot trying to be a nice guy.
His father must be turning in his grave for what he has said really abt his Organisation.

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