Mantashe slams Mabuza: We are not 'toy telephones'
3 April 2017
Johannesburg – ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has slammed Mpumalanga premier and ANC chairperson David Mabuza for labelling him and other ANC leaders ill-disciplined for openly criticising President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet reshuffle, which they say they were not consulted about.
"We are not asking for favours here. We are asking people to do what is right so that when you do things the organisation goes with you, otherwise there will be no ANC that contests elections and gives [power] over to an individual called a president or a premier. There is no such thing," Mantashe told News24.
Mabuza said on Sunday, in Bushbuckridge, that the ANC officials calling Zuma out must remember that they are not the president and that the president has the right to choose his Cabinet.
"I don't know if they want to exercise the same powers that the president has. It is quite ill-disciplined that people will go out and say they differ with the president," Mabuza said.