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ANC veteran Mathews Phosa has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately dismiss the suspended Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu, arguing that this will send a zero tolerance message to those implicated in wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the SABC on Tuesday, Phosa said this will send shocking lessons to everyone, but it will help clear the deck.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the commissioner is implicated, he must be fired now; no one must be protected. Now. It will send a shock through the system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere can\u2019t be a middle road; there\u2019s no middle in dealing with crime. You must take action, executive action,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cIndecisiveness is no longer what the President can afford.\u201d<\/p>\n
Phosa\u2019s statements come a week after the ANC accepted Mchunu\u2019s decision to step aside from the party activities.<\/p>\n
Mchunu is accused of being in cahoots with criminals who are actually cartel members.<\/p>\n
KZN police commissioner, Lt-Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi claimed Mchunu was protecting criminals for his own benefit.<\/p>\n
But Mchunu has since denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
Two committees, the Madlanga Commission and the Parliament ad hoc are investigating the veracity of the claims.<\/p>\n
Asked whether the situation reminded them of how former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma we removed, Phosa said there was decisiveness with the two.<\/p>\n
\u201cA resolution was taken in the early hours of the morning, the same morning, said, you have to resign and Mbeki was very honourable, he resigned.<\/p>\n
\u201cZuma sat with me in his house the night before he was going to resign\u2026 He said, What do you think?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think, President, please, I love you, you must go. And the following day, he left,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to Phosa, the NEC is not brave enough to tell Ramaphosa to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they wanted to say so, they could say so tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, over the past weekend, Ramaphosa dared those who are about his succession to stop, saying he would resign if he was told.<\/p>\n
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