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(NEWZIMBABWE) ANC, Zanu PF clash over Malema

ANC, Zanu PF clash over Malema
22/09/2011 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

THE African National Congress has accused Zanu PF of “influencing” its Youth League’s president Julius Malema, whose crusade for the nationalisation of mines and quicker land reforms has divided South Africans.

Malema has been hit with a misconduct charge by the ANC for calling for the ouster of President Robert Mugabe’s arch-critic, Botswana leader Ian Khama.

ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe, himself a target for removal by the ANC Youth League at next year’s congress, arrived in Zimbabwe on Tuesday for talks with Zanu PF’s top leadership.

In the absence of President Robert Mugabe who is at the United Nations in New York, Mantashe met separately with acting president John Nkomo, Zanu PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo, Vice President Joice Mujuru and the party’s secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa.

Mutasa revealed that Mantashe had claimed, in meetings, that Zanu PF was feeding Malema’s radical programme. According to Mutasa, the ANC secretary general also claimed that Zanu PF youths had massed outside the South African embassy in Harare to demonstrate against the ANC’s decision to charge Malema.
Zanu PF, a traditional ally of the ANC, strongly denies both allegations.

"We talked about the youths," Mutasa told the Herald. "They blamed us saying 'Malema speaks like you and thinks like you'.

"We told them that we are not influencing him. If he speaks like Zanu PF, that is the way he likes to speak, we cannot change him. If he thinks like us, that is up to him."

Mantashe told reporters that the ANC was yet to take a firm decision on nationalisation after sending teams to several countries in which the state has a massive stake in mining operations.

"We want to look at what is best for South Africans and when people advocate for a policy, we want a policy that does not hurt the economy,” Mantashe said.
"Nationalisation is a nice policy to talk about, but we don't want that which scares away investors."

During his three-day visit which concluded on Thursday, Mantashe visited the National Heroes Acre and went on a tour of A1 and A2 farms in Mashonaland East to see “success stories” of Zimbabwe’s land reforms.

Labels: ANC, JULIUS MALEMA, ZANU-PF

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