TOURISM minister and presidential hopeful Lindiwe Sisulu has rejected the statement from the Presidency saying she apologised for attacking judges.
This after the Presidency claimed Sisulu apologised for her comments on the judiciary.
In a statement on Thursday night, Sisulu said the Presidency statement misrepresented her meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Sisulu, who is campaigning to challenge Ramaphosa at the ANC’s national conference in December, vehemently denied issuing a retraction.
She said she stood by her article.
“I wish to categorically disown this statement in its entirety as a misrepresentation of the said meeting I had with the president. The president and I met on Wednesday at 21:00 at his house,” she said in a statement.
“In such a meeting, he shared his challenge with one aspect of the article on the judges. The president proposed an intermediary that would focus on the one line about the judges to
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