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Old 13th July 2004, 21:37
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http://iafrica.com/news/sa/334279.htm

This is interesting aswell.

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It is time the African National Congress clarifies the real nature of its relationship with Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF, the Democratic Alliance's acting leader, Douglas Gibson, said in a statement on Sunday.

He was reacting to newspaper reports that ANC officials led by President Thabo Mbeki had met with leading Zanu-PF officials at the ANC's Johannesburg headquarters to forge closer political ties.
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The ANC should tell South Africans how it was possible to have such a relationship with a government that:

had been criticised by an AU report for undemocratic practices and human rights abuses;

was carrying out what Zimbabwe's opposition described as "ethnic cleansing";

had destroyed the rule of law in Zimbabwe;

had introduced detention without trial; and

had closed down Zimbabwe's independent media and stopped the foreign media from operating.
(by the way, Tiger and Nubainman, AU stands for African Union)

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The ANC was undermining the New Partnership for Africa's Development and destroying South Africa's reputation as a bastion of human rights by surreptitiously supporting Mugabe and his government and applauding their unacceptable conduct, said Gibson.
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