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Motlanthe ups the ante

13 August 2012
Amukelani Chauke

THE ANC does not need party members who are "caught with their hands in the till”. Instead, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said yesterday, members should strive to emulate the selflessness of former president Nelson Mandela.

Motlanthe was speaking at the graduation ceremony for about 600 students of the ANC’s new Gauteng political school at the Walter Sisulu Leadership Academy in Soweto.

With less than four months before the party’s elective conference in Mangaung, and just more than a month before the ANC opens its leadership nominations process, Motlanthe appeared to be subtly putting himself forward as the man to get the party back on track.

His speech dwelt on the type of member who would stand the ANC in good stead – someone who had a political education and was without greed or a tendency to corruption...


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Report Abuse Author: alvonhumb Date: 13 August 2012 19:02

ANC talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk. There is never any action when corruption raises its head. An enquiry is followed by inaction while the problem hopefully blows over (e.g. Faku and the Kabuso findings). If it doesn't, the musical chairs game of "redeployment" kicks in as one pathetic failue follows the next. Mr Mothlante - your party no longer has any credibility, and it has reached a point where you are unable to act in fear of losing your own position to comrades who are acting exclusively in their own interests, and on whom you rely to stay where you are.

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