Publication: Sapa Issued: Johannesburg Date: 2005-11-21 Reporter: Sapa

ANC to Keep a "Close Watch" on Zuma Rape Claims : Official (1)

 

Publication 

Sapa
BC-ANC-LD-ZUMA

Date

2005-11-21

Issued

Johannesburg

Reporter

 Sapa

 

The African National Congress would keep a "close watch" on developments in rape claims against Jacob Zuma, secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday.

The matter would, however, be left to the judicial process *1.

"We will keep a close watch on it," Motlanthe said a media briefing on the party's national executive committee (NEC) meeting at the past weekend.

ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama read a formal statement on the matter.

It said in part: "On matter pertaining to the... investigation of the alleged criminal misconduct of the deputy president, the NEC is of the firm view that the judicial process is the appropriate mechanism to come to a determination on this matter."

The NEC found there was no conspiracy within its own ranks *2 against Zuma, and that there were no internal divisions *2 over the matter.

With acknowledgement to Sapa.


*1  At least a consistent approach.

*2  And there we have it from the (figurative) horse's mouth.