Johannesburg – ANC heavyweight Gwede Mantashe has been accused of playing a “xenophobic card” by suggesting white foreigners were interfering in the ongoing platinum mining strike.
“We condemn this attempt by the ANC to again play a racist, xenophobic card,” the Workers and Socialist Party said on Monday.
Deputy general secretary Liv Shange said in a statement this was done to detract from how the African National Congress-led government and the capitalist economy it presided over was failing mineworkers.
Mantashe, ANC secretary general, told reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday the party leadership had questioned whether the platinum strike, which began on January 23, was political.
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