LEAKED AUDIO | Mbeki warns of ANC breakaway
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Former president Thabo Mbeki yesterday told the ANC national executive committee that the governing party should prepare for a possible split caused by “irreconcilable ideological difference”.
Insiders told the Sunday Times that Mbeki made the comment in response to an input by NEC member Tony Yengeni at yesterday’s heated virtual meeting.
Yengeni had apparently said there were irreconcilable policy differences that existed within the party.
Insiders said Mbeki based his warning of a split on the fact that even late party president Oliver Tambo could not reason with the so-called ‘Gang of Eight’ who ended up being expelled from the party in 1975.
Insiders told the Sunday Times that Mbeki made the comment in response to an input by NEC member Tony Yengeni at yesterday’s heated virtual meeting.
Yengeni had apparently said there were irreconcilable policy differences that existed within the party.
Insiders said Mbeki based his warning of a split on the fact that even late party president Oliver Tambo could not reason with the so-called ‘Gang of Eight’ who ended up being expelled from the party in 1975.
