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=ANC STATEMENT ON WEEKEND REPORTS=


 * 5 June 2006**

The African National Congress is concerned by weekend media reports that misrepresent the decisions of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of 26-28 May 2006.

Reports, originating in the Sunday Times, that the ANC is to call its Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, "to account" for statements made during testimony in his recent rape trial are incorrect.

The ANC has taken no such decision.

The NEC resolved that, due to his request to be excused from the NEC discussion on matters arising from his trial, the ANC's Officials would brief the Deputy President on issues raised during the course of the discussion, affording him an opportunity to comment on them.

This is a matter of normal organisational procedure, which the ANC's National Chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota sought to clarify in his comments on the matter.

To suggest otherwise is inaccurate and mischievous.

Following the NEC meeting last weekend, the ANC released a press statement highlighting the main decisions of the NEC, including its substantive response to the matters arising from the rape trial of its Deputy President.

The ANC did this, as it does at the conclusion of every NEC meeting, so that the ANC membership and the public more broadly may be informed of the decisions of the organisation's highest decision-making body between conferences.

Anonymous claims by faceless sources neither represent the decisions of the ANC NEC nor the comments of the ANC National Chairperson.

On all matters relating to its positions, decisions and policies, the ANC will speak for itself.

African National Congress PO Box 61884 Marshalltown 2107
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5 June 2006

More information: Smuts Ngonyama 082 569 2061**

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