Members of Parliament during the Presidency budget vote on 23 July 2014. Image: GCIS
Members of Parliament during the Presidency budget vote on 23 July 2014. Image: GCIS
Political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki says ANC parliamentarians weren’t “sleeping on the job” when state capture occurred.
ANC MPs PROMOTED CAPTURING OF THE STATE
Instead, the ruling party’s parliamentarians actively encouraged the seizing of the country’s administration by private individuals, namely the Gupta family, says former president Thabo Mbeki’s younger brother.
“[ANC MPs] made decisions in connection with state capture, in connection with [the] protection of actions of the then administration,”
says Mbeki.
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Mbeki was speaking to SABC News anchor Bongiwe Zwane on 6 July 2022 after the ruling party’s national executive committee (NEC) promised to deal with the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, chaired by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.
ANC PARLIAMENTARIANS THE ‘MAIN WRONGDOERS’
Thereafter, Mbeki said he found it perplexing that Parliament, which consists of majority ANC parliamentarians, planned to take action over Zondo’s recommendations. He likened the move to criminals investigating themselves.
“The [ANC] majority of Parliament can veto and vote against any action Zondo recommended,” says Mbeki.
ANC PARLIAMENTARIANS SHIELD THE EXECUTIVE
Mbeki added that in the past 28 years, ANC parliamentarians “had used their majority in Parliament to protect the executive, which is the ANC, from being made accountable to the people of South Africa”.
MBEKI ROASTS RAMAPHOSA
In May 2022, Mbeki lambasted President Cyril Ramaphosa as being a “party agent”.
“The man has totally failed as a president, he can’t decide on anything, but many people believe he can save South Africa.
“Cyril is not a leader really. He was never a leader. He is an apparatchik or an agent of the party but he presents himself as a leader. He’s not a leader – if you put him next to Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and even Jacob Zuma,” the younger Mbeki sibling said.
Finally, Mbeki said Ramaphosa did not believe in anything but simply “goes with the flow”.
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