‘It's not as though the ANC at this point is going to be losing somebody who's a heavyweight and her constituency is not such that the ANC is going to suffer if she were to actually suffer, let's say the legal ramifications of her actions,’ says Dr TK Pooe, public policy specialist at the Wits School of Governance.
You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUE READING BELOW JEREMY MAGGS: High political drama overnight as the Johannesburg home of the parliamentary speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was raided. The National Prosecuting Authority’s investigating directorate conducted the raid.
JEREMY MAGGS: So they’re not really going to rally around her and support because also the optics are bad for the party, aren’t they? So I think maybe because of the slowness of our prosecution system because if I’m not mistaken, having listened to that interview , this is something that should have long really been put together and put to bed and come to the fore.
TK POOE: Well, I think what they’re going to simply do, and this is the only spin I can see that’s going through, is they’re going say, listen, this is where you guys see, us being the public, see the step-aside rule work, this is how we implement it. That’s the only thing they can really do to show that we, as a party, are acting.
TK POOE: It’s sad to say, but we’ve had so many of these types of incidents involving ANC bigwigs that I’m afraid to say it’s another glossary of the mistakes the ANC seems to be making. There’s nothing that tells me that this is almost the …, this is the Rubicon, where they say we’re doing things differently.
JEREMY MAGGS: And just a sign of ongoing decay within the social and moral fabric of the organisation.
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