LUCAS LEDWABA
ANC treasurer general Paul Mashatile lamented that journalists had seemed more interested in the party’s issues of ‘self-correction’ than on economic discussion outcomes of the special NEC media briefing on Monday.
Mashatile jokingly remarked that secretary general Ace Magashule convene another session with the hacks.
This he said, so they could get an opportunity to discuss other business that formed the deliberations of the organisation’s weekend long special NEC gathering.
The observation by Mashatile was undeniably spot on. Enquiries on what had been decided against comrades, cadres, leaders, civil servants, government officials implicated in covid-19 corruption dominated the briefing. Perhaps this was more than justifiably so.
Journalists would be doing the country, its citizens and the occupation a gross injustice had they focused on the ANC’s rhetorical pronouncements about turning around the economy than on the dinosaur of corruption casting a massive, ugly shadow over the country.
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