We aren’t coup plotters – Motau

RETIRED South African National Defence Force (SANDF) general Maomela “Mojo” Motau has denied claims that his ANC cadre summit was a coup plot, saying the purpose of the gathering was deliberately distorted by those who did not want the governing party’s problems to be solved.

Maintaining that the conflict in the country was between those who wanted to maintain neoliberalism and those who opposed it, Motau said the summit deliberated on the “mismanagement” of the ANC, the direction the governing party had taken, and who drove its agenda beyond superficial issues like leadership issues and corruption.

He spoke to the Sunday Independent on Friday following the conclusion of a meeting in Pretoria