President Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, the African National Congress deputy president, and other top ANC leaders are expected to meet the party’s KwaZulu-Natal leadership on Monday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
This followed newspaper reports that some ANC leaders in KwaZulu-Natal were plotting to make the province a no-go area for the president, the report said.
ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama was not available to confirm the meeting.
Mbeki described media reports suggesting that certain ANC leaders in KwaZulu-Natal had declared the province a no-go area as ”silly and nonsensical”, the SABC reported.
The Star said that Mbeki had challenged those who reportedly want to bar him from going to KwaZulu-Natal, saying that nothing would keep him out of the province.
A defiant Mbeki warned former Mpumalanga premier Matthews Phosa not to discredit the National Prosecuting Authority.
The president was speaking on Sunday after meeting Gauteng ANC alliance leaders in Ekurhuleni.
Mbeki demanded to know the names of KwaZulu Natal areas declared no-go zones to him, and said he would visit them any time.
The Star also said it understood that Mbeki was planning to visit the ANC provincial executive committee in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday. – Sapa