President Jacob Zuma on Friday expressed concern about relations within the ruling alliance and about the conduct of individual national executive committee members.
“There is a concern of how we are behaving toward one another, but how are we also behaving as leaders of the ANC, ourselves,” ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said.
The ANC’s national executive committee began a scheduled two-day meeting at Esselen Park, in Ekurhuleni, on Friday.
“How are we behaving toward alliance members but toward the general populace of South Africa?” was among the issues discussed on Friday, said Mthembu, who was spent Thursday morning behind bars after being arrested for drunken driving in Cape Town.
“So there is that concern from the side of the president,” he said.
The ANC has had a tumultuous week.
Zuma, who is the ANC’s president, came under fire for not timeously declaring his financial assets, while a storm erupted over comments made in what senior NEC member Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has described as a fabricated interview carried by the London Evening Standard.
Apart from Mthembu’s arrest, ANC spokesperson Brian Sokutu was suspended for apparently not following protocol in commenting to the media.
Clashing with Cosatu
Last week, the ANC and its alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions,
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