The ANC will seek a meeting with former president Thabo Mbeki to explain a letter that appears to question the party’s decision to “protect at all cost” President Cyril Ramaphosa on the Phala Phala scandal.
In the letter addressed to Deputy President Paul Mashatile, which TimesLIVE has seen but has not been able to independently verify, Mbeki is purported to have raised concern over the ANC instructing its MPs to block the parliamentary inquiries that would have probed the Phala Phala matter, after a section 89 panel found Ramaphosa may have an impeachable case to answer to.
Mbeki questions why, if the ANC believes Ramaphosa was innocent, it blocked parliamentary processes that would have cleared him. “Or are we saying that we suspect or know that he has done something impeachable and therefore decided that we must protect our president at all costs by ensuring that no MPC is formed?”
“The way we voted on December 13 2022, to block the process of the formation of an MPC, communicated the unequivocal statement that we do not want parliament to seek and gain a deeper and comprehensive understanding of the Phala Phala matter.ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the party’s leadership would meet Mbeki to explain why it took the decisions it did on Phala Phala.
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