Mbeki's recall strengthened bad elements in ANC - Pahad
23 June 2016
Johannesburg - Former president Thabo Mbeki's recall strengthened bad elements in the ANC, and this is still true, eight years on, former minister in the presidency Essop Pahad has said.
Pahad, who now edits a magazine, The Thinker , said this in a 22-page contribution to a newly-published book titled The Thabo Mbeki I Know , which was supported by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation.
Pahad started his piece recounting his first meeting with Mbeki in Johannesburg, and ended it with thoughts on Mbeki's recall in 2008.
The ANC's "act in recalling Thabo Mbeki was one that I think led it into some disrepute", Pahad, who was also a senior leader in the ANC, wrote.