Mbeki is right about holding Cyril to account

MPs must investigate the Phala Phala affair, writes Peter Bruce

02 April 2023 - 00:02

What is former president Thabo Mbeki up to? He has  written a long, convoluted and now leaked letter to deputy president Paul Mashatile in which he tries to make the case for a return to a solemn understanding in the ANC of the constitutional centrality of parliament in holding the executive to account...

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