Mantashe's 'How now, Mao?' shows no introspection

06 November 2015 - 02:28
By Ray Hartley

What should former leaders do once they have left office? ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has responded to his predecessor and former president Kgalema Motlanthe's criticism of the party's alliance with Cosatu and the SA Communist Party.Motlanthe told Business Day: "My reading is that there is no alliance, there is one organisation existing inside the integuments of erstwhile independent organisations, but today to talk about Cosatu as an independent organisation from the ANC or the SACP I ...

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