Zuma’s kids attack ANC leaders Mantashe and Sangoni attacked on Facebook posts by Thuthukile Finance minister wants to fund his preferred projects Edward
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PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s children are meddling in ANC politics, with his daughter Thuthukile entering the fray.
Zuma’s daughter with former African Union leader Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has attacked both ANC head of communication Khusela Sangoni and secretary-general Gwede Mantashe on her Facebook wall.
Meanwhile, Edward Zuma released a statement on Friday attacking minister of finance Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas.
But Thuthukile, who shocked many of her Facebook friends, attacked Sangoni over the ANC statement, where it expressed shock at the ANC Youth League statement fighting the Gauteng leadership. The youth league had opened a criminal case against former health MEC Qedani Mahlangu over the deaths of 94 mentally ill patients and also called for premier David Makhura to resign.
She wrote: “:In my view Khusela’s statement about the ANCYL Gauteng puts the ANC into disrepute. This why un-elected officials should not be writing statements on behalf of real elected leadership and about elected leadership. It just puts us in a mess. Can we stop juniorising serious posts in the ANC.”
Many of her Facebook friends defended Sangoni but a moving defence was from Nomfanelo Kota who was once an ANC national media coordinator.
She told Thuthukile that what she had done defied logic and spoke to a “creeping culture of entitlement by birth not by credentials to our body politic”.
“A little bit of advice to Thuthu and her siblings is that they refrain from treating ANC cadres who work hard with contempt.”
Thuthukile has also called on Jimmy Manyi, who publicly endorses her father’s leadership, to be elected to serve in the party’s next national executive committee. She referred to Manyi as a “real deal”.
On Mantashe she wrote that: “The SG [should] not pretend as [though] he is the organisation. Also, he is not a spokesperson. He is articulating his heart’s wants and desires not an organisational position.”
On another previous Facebook post, it was also clear that Thuthukile wants her mother to succeed her father.
She once posted: “2017: sikolento yeDoek Revolution … #NDZ (Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.”
The ANC Women’s League has come out in support of Dlamini-Zuma to take over as ANC president.
Yesterday, the league leaders including its president Bathabile Dlamini attended a church service in Khutsong, Carletonville, with Dlamini-Zuma. In what can be seen as launching her presidential bid, DlaminiZuma spoke out against corruption.
At the tender age of 25, Thuthukile was appointed the chief of staff in the telecoms minister’s office in 2014, a move that attracted criticism. At the time, Sangoni was one of the people who defended Thuthukile.
On the other hand, Edward claimed that the digital migration project had not been implemented because Treasury’s preferred companies did not win the contract.
“There are government programmes that have been stopped because Pravin Gordhan and Treasury don’t want to pay and claim there are individuals who want to loot the state coffers...,” Edward’s statement read.
Yesterday, ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said he had seen the attacks on Sangoni allegedly by Thuthukile. “I have not been able to talk to her [Thuthukile]. I have decided to speak to [her] first to confirm or deny [if] it’s her remarks, I take them seriously, coming from the member of the ANCYL,” Kodwa said.
Thuthukile answered her phone earlier and promised to come back to Sowetan.
Her phone rang unanswered by the time of going to print and her Facebook page had been deleted. Zuma’s spokesman Bongani Ngqulunga said they do not comment on Zuma’s family.