You are putting Gordhan in a dangerous postion, Mantashe tells media
1 June 2016
Johannesburg - Media reports portraying Pravin Gordhan as an institution on his own, instead of a minister under President Jacob Zuma, are putting the finance minister in a dangerous position, the ANC said on Tuesday.
"Taking him out of the Cabinet collective and putting him somewhere as an institution, it's dangerous," ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe told reporters in Johannesburg.
He was briefing media on the party's national executive committee meeting held over the weekend.
"Ring-fencing" Gordhan and making him appear as though he was not part of the Cabinet, which answered to the president, was making him weaker.