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The African National Congress (ANC) is "deeply concerned" about the public spat between Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale and Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, the party said on Friday. "Taking into account the crucial importance of service delivery to our people, we call on comrades Sexwale and Sisulu to rather work together and not against each other in ensuring that the ANC-led Government delivers on its mandate," a statement from the party read. "Public spats do not advance housing service delivery." The tiff started earlier this week when Sexwale revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary question that the housing department had spent more than R22-million on a series of plays during Sisulu's tenure. The industrial theatre production A re Ageng Mzanzi (Let's Build South Africa) reportedly netted R5,5-million for a production company owned by former soap opera actor Mpho Tsedu. Democratic Alliance member of Parliament Butch Steyn has written to Auditor General Terence Nombembe, asking him to investigate expenditure on the production. Sexwale told his management and staff that "this sort of expenditure will not happen on my watch". He remarked to journalists in Boksburg that it had been necessary to demolish or renovate 40 000 houses across the country because of poor workmanship. Sisulu retaliated on Thursday, releasing a statement accusing Sexwale of failing to come up with new programmes and for claiming credit for initiatives she introduced while she was still housing minister. A number of projects Sexwale had claimed credit for, including plans to repair defective RDP houses at a cost of R1-billion, and bringing in the Special Investigating Unit to investigate low-cost housing fraud, had been initiated on her watch. She told Sexwale to "spend some time in the office reading reports and Cabinet memos from 2004". She defended the decision to commission the play, saying it was necessary to inform the public about new government plans for housing. According to the Cape Times, Sisulu, an ANC national working committee member, sees herself as politically senior to Sexwale, who only sits on the ruling party's national executive committee. Sisulu's lashing of Sexwale, the newspaper said, could lie in the distrust some senior ANC leaders had for the former business mogul, who harboured his own presidential ambitions before throwing in his lot with Zuma on the eve of the ANC's Polokwane conference in 2007. The ANC calling on Sisulu and Sexwale to work together in the interests of service delivery to South Africans. "We have confidence in both comrade Sexwale and Sisulu and urge them to set aside any differences in approach to service delivery and work together in taking the ANC programme forward. -- Sapa TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE
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George Annandale on November 27, 2009, 2:53 pm
Tokyo will not last and will find a reason to resign like Godsell. He has been in business and will not tolerate what he will now have to put up with. He will find that what ever decision he makes, will be sabotaged by his crooked underlings.
Sydney Kaye on November 27, 2009, 3:12 pm
Oh, when thieves fall out! After all, 'comrade' is the Russian for kleptocrat.
Both deserve the Eugene Terreblanche Award for keeping the masses in their place. After all, there are only so many Porsche Cayennes available. Let them eat cake!
Bernard Hellberg on November 27, 2009, 3:16 pm
Go Tokyo - you give me hope.
Andre Scheepers on November 27, 2009, 3:30 pm
This is a second spat in one month that involves members of this cabinet. What is worse is that this cabinet is only 7 months old.
Makho Mazolo on November 27, 2009, 3:33 pm
Sexwale comes with a no nonsense approach and a number of cages are bound to rattle and spook a few people. It is hard to imagine any one as beautiful as Lindiwe who would not be frightened by Tokyo’s bold and radical approach to issues at hand. Such beauty is very fragile but I know that when the nerves calm down the two will smooch and make up.
Ngoako Modiba on November 27, 2009, 4:08 pm
Sydney, I agree with you. The track record proves (not debatable) that anyone more concerned with delivery and fighting corruption than 'fitting into the system' does not survive. Very often these people also demonstrate the sensibility of just walking away from the mess.
A pity but true.
Ray Ives on November 27, 2009, 4:28 pm
I am fully behind Tokyo on this one. For a change we need leaders who will do more and talk less. He must leave talking to Lindiwe and continue to deliver on the promises made by the ruling party. In case they try to sabotage him politically, we shall support him. The next leader of the ANC will be someone with proven track record in clean governance and service delivery. Tokyo is so far ahead of the pack..
Freedom Ndlovu on November 27, 2009, 4:35 pm
Sisulu is a biatch and someone should tell here that.She has not brains at all.
Anyone with brains wouldn't allow 22 million to e wasted on a 'play'.Is this another Sarafina? Tokyo is right and Sisulu needs to account for 22 million.How many houses could have been built on that wasted 22 million. District 9, cost 30 million to make and it took the world by storm.The movie grossed $199,448,079 and what value was created by a Sisulu commissioned play? Maybe ANC supporters would be happy to see a play about what the government uses taxpayers money instead of building houses. What would Sisulu consider as achievement during her tenure.A play?
Evans Mazi on November 27, 2009, 4:45 pm
Tokyo is an opportunist, check how he flipflopped between his own ambitions for presidency and ingratiating himself with the Zuma camp. Lindiwe has a right to put him in his place. Don't forget that this man didn't shed a drop of sweat to accumulate the wealth he now has (i.e. it has nothing to do with his business acumen or tenacity). Other than spending a night in a shack (as if he didn't already how it feels to live in a shack) this man hasn't espoused any new ideas to advance the mandate of his portfolio. He also has a tendency of blaming every failure of the previous government & the ANC on Mbeki. It was just a matter of time for his cover to be blown!!
Mpho R on November 27, 2009, 4:50 pm
The successive ANC leaders who have ruled (or is it ruined)our lives have somewhat believed it was their god-given responsibility to improve the lives of ordinary South Africans ( the previously disadvantaged in this case). No one can do it right except themselves. Those who previously benefited from the criminal apartheid dispensation cannot pass judgement on whether the ANC is doing right or wrong - who doesn't know about their racist outlook?
The problem becomes, as it has always happened with all Animal Farm scenarios, when comrades start seeing each others' shortcomings and getting vocal about them. Their god-given right facade is blown to smithereens and the fight for public opinion hots up. He who marries a divorcee lives in fear of not matching the standard set by his predecessor!
malose nyatlo on November 27, 2009, 5:48 pm
He said ... she said. Just get the job done.
Poly Ticks on November 28, 2009, 4:39 am
Freedom I agree 100%. We need our country to be run properly and Tokyo is the man to do it. He is a succesful businessman and will do the same as a President. Colour is of no concern to me, just the right man/women for the job. Go Tokyo go, do not let any of the idiots you have to deal with sway you.
Lee van Zyl on November 29, 2009, 2:50 pm
Go Tokyo. Expose them on their failures. They thought we wouldn't know. Anyway, Tokyo is wealthy, and would not steel a cent from the poor, and by the way, he know how to spend money wisely, hence he is so wealthy. Look at her sentiments "seeing herself as politically senior"? What a cr*b? Sort out SANDF, period.
Mnike Leswena on December 16, 2009, 1:39 pm
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Seems another case of the pot calling the kettle bl*ck. Why does she not proudly claim the credit for the sad state of the defense force? The recent mutiny happened under her guard. She has done nothing to rid the defense force of the many generals spending time getting fat and devising ways to cheat at exams, knowing that the SADF has the highest General to Troop ratio in the world. She probably rationalises that, since the troops are unfit, with half of them HIV/Aids infected they need more focused leadership. It did not help the new breed of “super-paratrooper”, who after a few puffs of happy weed jumped out of the aircraft without parachutes
Perhaps she should do a play on the SADF. I suggest something that will include dancing soldiers and the Union Buildings as backdrop
The words p*g had to be sensored to prevent it from being stopped by the editor. It happened on another site
See http://letterdash.com/g.annandale/the-emperor-the-wolf-and-the-house