So the current ANC spokesman, former spokesman for Mandela, ANC stalwart, one of the few good whites from back in the day, etc etc blah, is worse than his big boss Msholozi at managing personal finances.
Thanks to the M&G the whole country now knows the extent of Carl's problems/sins/crimes. Carl claims he will likely lose his job now that these things are in the public domain. He has not denied them (although continues to spin some details), and has tendered his resignation at Luthuli House, even though he claims the ANC has known for three years the full extent of his financial difficulty (read fraud, corruption, bad debt, Brett Kebble, you name it).
If the ANC have known for that long, and would only consider firing him if details became public, why hire him so close to the most important election in the country's history? What are the chances of keeping so many skeletons inside one closet for so long? The story was bound to break at some stage, and appointing him spokesperson would only have increased the media's interest in doing so.
He must have consulted ANC leaders over the M&G's request for an interview, and what to say if one were granted, well before these stories were written. They must have told Carl to do it. [They also presumably must have indicated what would be the consequences of doing it, making all Carl's fuss about his handing in his resignation odd. He must have known before talking to M&G whether or not the ANC was going to kick his ass out.] So it isn't surprising that the tone of his quotes in the M&G articles appear heavily scripted. As were his comments on the two radio interviews he did this morning. Poor me, I'm not so bad I just made mistakes, I didn't know how to say no to my second wife, I thought you had to pay for love to keep it, but rest assured I will fall on my sword in the name of my love for the ANC and South Africa. Because I am such an honourable guy. What kak. He's fallen on his sword or been kicked out of: the Presidency, Delloitte, and the Gauteng Economic Development Agency. If you love the ANC and South Africa so much why are you running around constantly trying to wreck it in the name of big houses and shoes for your wife? Another one who didn't fight the struggle to be poor, it seems.
I really can't think of a logical set of reasons why this might have been something the ANC has planned and arranged, unless someone on the new NEC really fuckin hates Carl. I can't see how this helps the ANC's election bid. Their President still isn't clear of corruption charges; now their chief spokesperson is blubbing on national radio about his own corruption. And the other spokesperson, Jesse I don't need to obey traffic laws at all if I'm Gauteng Safety and Securiy MEC Duarte, apparently hates him. Will be interesting to see what one spokesperson has to say about the other - no doubt later today!
Viva South African politics Viva! It is never ever boring.
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I assume that nearly everyone in govt has dirt being held against them, and that's why they're constantly defending each other. But as to why it came out now; you're right, that does seem strange. Probably somebody outside stumbled onto something, and was threateneing to bring it out at a worse time?
The liquidators of Kebble's estate might have been investigating him....
wtf! That's the first time that I've heard that story about Duarte. What came of it?
His links to Kebble were aired in the media about a month ago so that would have forced some out in the open. But all the stuff about corruption in GEDA? Not connected...
Ya Duarte 'resigned' after that.
Have any of his old GEDA collegues moved to COPE?
mebbe. who can tell?
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