ANC boss accuses judges of conspiracy against Zuma
African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Gwede Mantashe has launched an extraordinary attack on the country's top judges, suggesting their bombshell complaint against Cape Judge President John Hlophe is an orchestrated conspiracy to undermine ANC president Jacob Zuma.
In an exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian this week, Mantashe accused the Constitutional Court judges of being an element of the "counter-revolutionary forces" seeking the destruction of Zuma and the ANC.
Mantashe's outburst seems part of a concerted offensive by the ruling alliance. ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe has also criticised the court over Hlophe.
Earlier this year, the ANC and the ANC Youth League attacked the Deputy Chief Justice, Dikgang Moseneke, after his reported remark that "I have chosen my work very carefully. It is not what the ANC wants or what delegates want; it is about what is good for our people."
In addition, Congress of South African Trade Unions leader Zwelinzima Vavi has assailed the South African Human Rights Commission, a Chapter 9 constitutional watchdog, as "liberal" and "yesterday's guardian of human rights".
Mantashe's remarks came a month after the Constitutional Court lodged a complaint with the Judicial Service Commission, stating that Hlophe had allegedly improperly tried to influence the court's judges in relation to cases involving Zuma.
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Its this sort of shit that makes me want to seriously consider the permanent position that I've been offered here in North Carolina ....
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ya, fucking liberal swines are fucking evil. didn't help peaceful transformation in SA one bit.
but in their defense (that's be vavi and malema - motlanthe and mantashe are fairly well educated and have no excuse), I think they are railing against economic liberalism, and confusing that with broader classic liberal values. So basically Thabo and Trevor are evil LIBERALS because of GEAR (i.e. liberal economists like markets, not the RDP), therefore all liberals are evil. At least I hope that's where the confusion is coming in. Malema was on Five FM recently and genuinely didn't seem to understand the difference. Maybe Vavi is more clued up, but these clowns never cease to amaze.
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