Morning Star.png ANC, COSATU spurn 'Save SA' protest Bonolo Selebano, The New Age, Johannesburg, 2 November 2016 The ANC in Gauteng will not be joining civil society organisations and opposition political parties in today's Save SA march in the country's capital city of Tshwane. ANC provincial spokesperson Nkenke Kekana said the ANC in Gauteng never had any intention to participate in the march as well as protest action organised by the EFF and DA in support of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. "We never had any intention to participate but to picket outside court in relation to Pravin Gordhan appearing in court. "Now that there are no charges, there is no need for us to be in Tshwane tomorrow," Kekana said. He said unequivocally that the ANC only had the intention to close ranks behind Gordhan in light of his then scheduled appearance in court. "The issue was about the picket, we never had any intention to march except to be in court to support Pravin Gordhan." Kekana's comments come against the background of NPA head Shaun Abrahams backtracking on the NPA's pursuit of Gordhan following representations made by former senior South African Revenue Service (SARS) employees Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashula. COSATU COSATU provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said COSATU had never taken a decision to support Gordhan in court in the first place. "We were never even part of the picket, even from the initial charges as there was no structural decision for us as COSATU," Dakile said. He said that it would take more than the NPA's withdrawal of charges against Gordhan to stabilise relations within the ANCled tripartite alliance. "This is just one small matter in a broader scheme, we can't look at it in isolation as there are other matters that the alliance must deal with. "The Pravin Gordhan issue is a symptom of a much deeper problem." SACP The SACP on Monday also called off its planned demonstration against corporate capture. The announcement followed the NPA's decision to drop charges against Gordhan. [N.B.: Shortly after nine p.m. yesterday evening, the SACP made another announcement to the effect that its Second Deputy General Secretary Cde Solly Mapaila would address the Soros-funded SSA gathering, now billed to take place at Pretoria's Anglican Cathedral.] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/02112016/epaperpdf/4.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/000601d234bf%24662e8b90%24328ba2b0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
