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The ANC Youth League in Mpumalanga has called on the ANC to discipline former treasurer-general, Mathews Phosa, following his recent public criticism of the party.
ANCYL deputy president and Mpumalanga chairperson, Desmond Moela, said the provincial executive committee had decided to contact the ANC’s White River branch to institute disciplinary charges against Phosa for attacking President Jacob Zuma and Premier David Mabuza. That is, according to Moela, if he was still an ANC member.
“The ANCYL has grown impatient to the last straw with the Nazi theatrics of Mathews Phosa aimed at attacking the ANC and its leadership at all levels, particularly (Zuma) and (Mabuza).
We have lost count on how many times this Mathews Phosa has insulted, fed calculated malice divisions in the ANC and its leadership in the full view of the public with no consequence,” Moela said.
Among Phosa’s many speeches recently, which did not go down well with the league, is that he praised the last apartheid government president, Frederik de Klerk, at a gathering of the FW de Klerk Foundation last week.
During the event, Phosa criticised the ANC leadership for the Marikana massacre, upgrades at President Zuma’s Nkandla home, firing of former Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene, load shedding and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir’s escape from arrest against a court order.
“Negative defining moments for South Africa were the shootings at Marikana, Nkandla, the case of Sudan president Omar al-Bashir, economic disruptive load shedding implemented by Eskom, the expansion of the executive to more than 70 members, the removal of former Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene, all following in close succession,” Phosa told the gathering.
“The bloated presidential, ministerial and deputy ministerial executive structure is costing you and I, as taxpayers, hundreds of millions of rands. All of this at a time where the unemployment rate is more than thirty percent of potential economic active citizens of the country. A fair question seems: Do we really get value for this amount of money spent?” he added.
Phosa is facing a R10 million defamation civil claim in the Northern Gauteng High Court that Mabuza instituted after he submitted a report to ANC deputy secretary, Jessie Duarte, alleging that Mabuza was an apartheid government spy.
His former butler, Jan Venter, has alleged that he saw Phosa and his associate, Nick Elliot, drafting the spy report. Phosa, however, said that the report has been in existence for a few years.
Phosa said: “I will not respond to nonsense.”
Moela said the league had lost respect for Phosa.
