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Article: 'ANC has moral authority'.(News)
- Article from:
- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2009
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By CARIEN DU PLESSIS
Political Bureau
South Africa will once again affirm the ANC as a party with "moral authority" in the upcoming national elections, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said yesterday.
In a joint press conference with leaders from the Dutch Reformed Church, Mantashe said the ANC had retained moral authority despite the fact that its former spokesperson Carl Niehaus was a self-confessed fraudster with a string of allegations of money problems and unpaid debt behind his name.
He said one corrupt ANC member ...