ANC seeks urgent meeting with Guptas
Johannesburg - The ANC and Guptas have agreed that an urgent meeting is needed following allegations that the politically connected family was influencing Cabinet appointments.
"We are still waiting for confirmation, but... both sides have agreed that we need to meet urgently, perhaps before the end of the week," ANC national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said.
The ANC's top officials met with the family last month, but this was to do with their acquisition of the Glencore mine by the family’s Tegeta Exploration & Resources, and other allegations.
"Now that there are new fresh allegations that were made, and the NEC [national executive committee] having raised a number of concerns, we thought it was also important to firstly make a follow-up on the first meeting, but equally to further raise the concerns of the NEC, including how both the News Age and ANN7 carried some reports about the NEC," he said.
The ANC's national executive committee met in Pretoria at the weekend, where allegations that the Guptas had offered Cabinet positions to party officials were discussed. This followed a turbulent week for the governing party.