By Simon Nare
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has defended former international relations minister and ANC heavyweight Dr Naledi Pandor for her remarks that the country lacked leadership.
Mbalula told reporters that he was taken aback by people who were calling for Pandor to be discipled, when she was in fact articulating ANC policy.
While delivering a lecture at the centenary celebration of former ANC Women’s League president Gertrude Shope, Pandor said Shope would be dismayed by ANC corruption and its decline.
“We have lost our glory; the people are looking at us with horror and shame. We need the copper-wire scourer, not the sponge, to clean the pot. Renewal must be practical, not rhetorical,” she said.
In sharp contrast to his reaction to ANC MP Malusi Gigaba and suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu who recently criticized the party, Mbalula said that many have distorted what Pandor said, arguing that she
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