ANC's Secretary General responds to Mugabe's attacks on Mandela

African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said he called Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Ignatius Chombo to lodge a complaint over President Robert Mugabe‘s attacks on Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

At the last Zanu-PF rally in Midlands, Mugabe said that Mandela negotiated for his release and compromised a lot as a result. Said Mugabe:

When I asked someone in Zuma’s (SA President Jacob Zuma) administration why the whites still have so much power . .  he said “I ask your friend Mandela” as if Mandela was still alive . . . apparently Mandela negotiated with the whites by himself. Chaive chikuru kwaari yaive freedom yekubuda mujeri achikanganwa kuti zvikuru ndeizvo zvaakaendeserwa kujeri (Apparently Mandela viewed his release from jail as more important but forgetting about how he had been jailed in the first place).

Speaking during a press conference at the ANC headquarters at Luthuli House, Mantashe accused Mugabe of ruining Zimbabwe’s economy. He said contrary to Mugabe’s statements, the ANC had created a better life for the majority of South Africans.

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