By Simon Nare
ANC veteran Tony Yengeni has called out party secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s leadership style of “slander and insults” and cautioned that he may lead to a further decline in party support.
In a podcast interview, Yengeni hit back at Mbalula, who last week labelled him as a political Casanova who was “spewing vagrant political views that are embraced by a few malcontents who are opposed to the ANC”.
Mbalula went on the attack after the veteran leader mocked the January 8 celebration venue on social media. The secretary-general said at the time that Yengeni would face disciplinary charges for the post and many others from the past.
But Yengeni said in the interview that he never received any calls from Mbalula informing him that he would be charged. He added that he had received a text from Mbalula, and before he could read it, he started receiving calls from comrades alerting him
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