New Age2.png Mbeki: Zuma not to blame Bonolo Selebano, The New Age, Johannesburg, 2 November 2016 Former president Thabo Mbeki and ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said yesterday that recalling president Jacob Zuma would not resolve the crisis in the ruling party. In an interview with Tregernomics, a politics and economics blog, Mbeki said he did not believe Zuma should quit and that the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) should take collective responsibility for its internal problems. "No, I don't. There are wrong things that are happening with the ANC, but I think it's the fault of the collective leadership. For instance, the ANC has the NEC, a body that takes decisions for the ANC between the conferences where the whole party meets, and that is the body that must take responsibility for what's gone wrong. "Even if you removed Zuma, let us say just hypothetically, it would change nothing if you didn't change the NEC. So you need to look at the whole NEC, the decisions and actions they have taken and not taken. It is not just a matter of looking at the president of the ANC, I think it is basically a matter of looking at the NEC, which includes the president, to see what to do," Mbeki said. Mantashe Mantashe echoed Mbeki. He told The New Age recalling Zuma was not a solution to the ANC's woes and Zuma could not take sole responsibility for the ANC lurching from crisis to crisis. "If we disagree with one issue they are raising about the president stepping down, that is not the right way of doing things, we disagree with the approach they are using because they become part of the #ZumaMustFall movement," Mantashe said. He said Zuma should not shoulder the blame for the ANC's and broader society's socio-economic challenges. "If people think the only solution to all the ills of society in South Africa is the recall or stepping down of the president, we will disagree with that as the ANC. We are not a one-item movement, we are a liberation movement that deals with a whole range of issues," he said. Mantashe also said the ANC should set its gaze beyond Zuma's presidency to turn around its "misfortunes" ahead of the 2019 general elections. "If you listen to the message we issued on OR Tambo last week, one of the things we raised was that let's demystify the belief that this is the first and worst chaos. We have a conference at the end of next year; we should be working on ensuring that conference will become a watershed conference." From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/02112016/epaperpdf/1.pdf __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14374 (20161101) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d234b8%24b6310b60%2422932220%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
