Sundaytimes Online
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
The ANC Youth League in Limpopo has lambasted the province's premier, Sello Moloto, for saying Jacob Zuma's court battles are his own personal problems and not a national concern.
"The ANC Youth League Limpopo Province rejects these comments made by the ANC Provincial Chairperson Sello Moloto with the contempt they deserve, because they send a message of disunity and factionalism in the ANC" the league said in a statement.
Moloto had told ANC members during President Thabo Mbeki's weekend visit to the province that the challenges faced by Zuma were personal and that structures of the organisation did not have to lend political support to the embattled former deputy president.
"Our answer to comrade Moloto as to why we support the ANC Deputy President lays (sic) in the resolution of the National General Council, later endorsed by both the ANC National Executive Committee and the ANC Limpopo Province."
"We find it odd that the ANC Limpopo Provincial Chairperson...seems to have been oblivious of the resolutions of the ANC yet he is its leader in the province," the league said.
It accused Moloto of having an agenda against Zuma.
"We therefore conclude that this is nothing but a political agenda to deal with the ANC Deputy President..."
"We will engage... Moloto around his public views and at the same time express our utter rejection of these sentiments as his personal views and not those of the provincial ANC," said the league.
Sapa