Sabelo: No truth to Sunday Times report
The African National Congress Youth League's (ANCYL) secretary in KZN has vowed to approach the press ombudsman to clear his name.
Thanduxolo Sabelo has distanced himself from a report in the Sunday Times that he was part of a meeting where a plan was hatched to oust President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The newspaper reported that a group of the ANC officials, including former President Jacob Zuma and ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, is planning to approach the courts in an effort to overturn the result of the party’s national conference.
The paper claims Sabelo also attended the meeting in a hotel in Durban on Thursday.
But Sabelo says there is absolutely no truth to the reports.
“I have taken up the matter with the press ombudsman to say that the Sunday Times has written a false story which seeks to defame me and to cast aspersions on my character. I will demand an apology with immediate effect.”
Sabelo admits that he saw Magashule at the hotel but not for the reasons claimed by the Sunday Times.
“I saw the SG. He was outside the hotel not even inside. Outside the hotel packing his bag inside the car, so I went there to greet him we barely spent five minutes together there and I had to rush back to a PWC meeting which was taking place in the provincial office of the ANC.”
Sabelo says he has a good relationship with President Cyril Ramaphosa
“I have no problem with the current president of the ANC. Indeed we have a very good working relationship.”
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