Former African National Congress (ANC) President Thabo Mbeki says late member of the National Executive Committee Tito Mboweni would have contributed to finding solutions to the challenges the party is facing today.
Mboweni died on Saturday last week following a short illness at the age of 65.
Mbeki says Mboweni was an honest and brutally frank person.
He also told SABC News that the current tensions in the Government of National Unity (GNU) are inevitable.
Mbeki says, “You would expect that there will be tension. People take different positions. We have lost the elections; what do we do? Do we form a Government of National Unity? Some people say yes, the majority. Another says no let’s form a minority government. So there is a difference.”
“How do you deal with it? How do you handle it so that in the end there is a common agreement to move together? I’m saying Tito’s experience within the movement would have helped the ANC to address differences of that kind,” he adds.
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