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JOHANNESBURG – ANC head of international relations Lindiwe Zulu has defended the party’s recent trip to Zimbabwe.
She says the trip by party officials on a South African National Defense Force plane accomplished much of what was intended.
Zulu was participating in an online seminar on lessons the ANC can learn from postcolonial Zimbabwe.
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Zulu insists critics of the now infamous Harare trip are wrong, both about how the trip was made and what it accomplished.
The main seminar participant, Ibbo Mandaza, who is one of Zimbabwe’s leading intellectuals, disagreed.
“Lindiwe exaggerates the role of the old liberation movements, unnecessarily,” Mandaza said.
“If it’s a PR stance, I don’t know. She must know, as we all know, that Zanu-PF is a very battered party. It is completely naive and self-indulgent on the part of anyone, including herself, to think that Zanu -PF can change the fortunes of Zimbabwe “.
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The ANC has yet to repay the money for using the defense force plane as its private jet, as it promised to do.
He has also not agreed to meet with any Zimbabwean political actor other than Zanu-PF.
