OCTOBER 4, 2017. Johannesburg. Leader of the Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane delivered a speech at the Joburg Indaba at the Inanda Club in Johannesburg on 4 October 2017. Also present at the Indaba was Zweli Mkhize. "Maimane criticised the 2017 Reviewed Mining Charter gazetted in June, and called out the minister of mineral resources, Mosebenzi Zwane, for his close proximity to the controversial Gupta family and its businesses.The mining industry is currently challenging the implementation of the Charter at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria seeking for it to be reviewed or set aside, arguing that the Charter would be harmful to the industry and the economy because of its content, as well as the vague and contradictory language employed to convey that content." PHOTOGRAPH: ALON SKUY/THE TIMES
South Africa’s prominent opposition figure, Mmusi Maimane has hit out at Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa for ‘failing to sit down’ with main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa in the pursuit of resolving the political crisis characterising the troubled southern African nation.
The former DA front-man said Mnangagwa apparently lacks good faith in his hyped pronouncements to solve the crises facing Zimbabwe. Maimane who controversially quit the DA last year, was responding to an article that appeared in an online publication which rightly said Mnangagwa has been meeting with representatives of the arguably less popular Political Actors’ Dialogue (Polad) at his farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, while concurrently shunning Chamisa.
“This is what makes your talks a sham (Mnangagwa)”, he said in comments posted on his Twitter handle.
Maimane, who made history in 2015 by becoming the first black person to lead the DA, also claimed that Chamisa got 2.6 million votes in the disputed 2018 presidential elections controversially won by Mnangagwa.
” Failure to sit down with the MDC demonstrates a lack of good faith to resolve the issues in (Zimbabwe). MDC was the only other party to get representation in parliament. (Chamisa) had 2.6 million of the Presidential election votes”, said the ex-DA leader.
Maimane is on record expressing dissatisfaction over the manner in which the South African government has handled the Zimbabwe political crisis.
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