CHARLES MOLELE
FORMER president Thabo Mbeki has criticized the ANC for using its parliamentary majority to prevent investigations into criminal activities at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm in Limpopo.
The former statesman also questioned why the formation of a multi-party committee (MPC) to investigate the Phala Phala scandal was stopped if members of the ANC believed that the President had not done anything impeachable.
Mbeki made these comments in an explosive 17-page letter dated 29 March, which he addressed to ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile.
“The way we voted on 13 December 2022 to block the process of the formation of an MPC communicated the unequivocal statement to the mases of the people that we do not want Parliament to seek and gain a deeper and comprehensive understanding of the Phala Phala matter. In other words, we acted as we did because there is something to hide,” Mbeki writes
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