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Voice notes may be aimed at discrediting KZN ANC leaders: analyst

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Political analyst Lukhona Mnguni says it might be true that there are some ANC members still bitter after the election of the party’s current national leadership led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

He added that it might also be possible that incriminating voice notes circulating on social media are fabricated lies.

The anonymous voice notes talk about an alleged plot by some people in KwaZulu-Natal to topple Ramaphosa and his executive.

Mnguni says the voice notes may be aimed at discrediting some ANC leaders in KZN.

“I think there is truth that there are people who still don’t believe in the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa. They are also unhappy with the way he has conducted himself in government in the last two months and as a result of that they may be weary to have him continuing as their President particularly because KZN is one of the champions of radical economic transformation going to that conference. They felt that while they might have lost the presidency, they had definitely won the policy platform and so now the President seems not to be in sync with that policy narrative that came out of Nasrec. That is the first point, but on the other hand it may be, there is no truth at all, these are just manufactured allegations deliberately to cause marginalisation and side-lining of KZN in the broader national politics of the ANC, and  that would emanate from those that support Cyril Ramaphosa in actual fact.”

Meanwhile, the authenticity of the recorded voice notes and the identity of the people in the messages have not yet been established.

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