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'ANC’s NEC must quit' - Mthembu─── 07:39 Sun, 23 Oct 2016
Johannesburg - ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu has made a shocking proposal that all of the party’s top leaders should step down for failing the prosecuted finance minister Pravin Gordhan, as the state looks set to continue with the case against him.
City Press reports that according to two highly placed sources, the National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) has assured Hawks head, Berning Ntlemeza, that it would not back down on the decision to charge Gordhan.
The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shaun Abrahams, last week announced that Gordhan would be charged with fraud for signing off his former deputy Ivan Pillay’s early retirement.
Mthembu told the Sunday newspaper in an interview that the current leadership “reduced the governing party into something that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth”.
Mthembu, as well as ANC secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, were among senior ANC leaders and stalwarts that offered Gordhan moral and political support ahead of his appearance in court on November 2.
