ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe believes that even amid political scandals, such as the Nkandla and Phala Phala sagas, ANC leaders should protect the office of the ANC presidency from being weakened. | ZintleMahlati
"Someone asked me why we are defending Phala Phala, as we did with Nkandla. But we are not defending Phala Phala. [Here's] what we need to do when dealing with these issues. You do not kill the office of the president of the ANC because the ANC will be much weaker. That is why we allow the president to take on any legal review on Phala Phala. That is why when it was Nkandla, we allowed processes to follow.
Mantashe also spoke strongly about ANC national executive committee members who publicly stated they would not vote according to the party's instructions on the Section 89 report into allegations against the president, in connection with a burglary at his Phala Phala farm.ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe.
Mantashe said he was shocked to see fellow ANC members say they would not follow the party line. ANC members who were critical of the Phala Phala matter included Lindiwe Sisulu and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. "That would be new because, in the ANC, there is no such thing as conscious voting. You vote according to the decisions of the ANC. If you break the ranks with the ANC, you are ill-disciplined. Once we are divided, everybody will focus on the ANC because the ANC is degenerating and fragmented," Mantashe said.
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