Sisulu Slams Reports About Supporting Niehaus’ RET Movement, Saying She Won’t Be Used “To Spread Rumours”

• Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu had tongues wagging online by giving the media a piece of her mind
• Sisulu clapped back at claims that she was joining Carl Niehaus' Radical Economic Transformation Movement
• Some South Africans believe there is truth to the so-called rumours and Sisulu is merely trying to cover her back

PRETORIA - The Minster of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu is not impressed with claims that expelled ANC member Carl Niehaus was recruiting the tourism minister to join his NPO, the Radical Economic Transformation Movement (Retmo).

Sisulu did not mince her words when she made her dissatisfaction clear in a spicy tweet.

The tourism minister wrote:

"Agenda-driven reporting of this nature must never be allowed to flourish. I will not allow my name to be used to spread [rumours] and untruths."

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The report Sisulu was referring to was an article published by IOL that claimed that Niehaus was looking toward the tourism minister, former president Jacob Zuma and former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule.

According to the publication, Niehaus claimed that the three senior ANC members were not opposed to the idea of Retmo. The shunned former member of the ruling party said it is not clear yet how involved the trio will be in the movement and their degree of participation is completely up to them.

Use pictures to "expose" Lindiwe Sisulu of cosying up to Carl Niehaus

Doubtful South Africans took to the comments section of Sisulu's tweet to post pictures of her and Niehaus claiming the minister was preparing herself for defection.

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The tourism minister was quick to clear the air claiming she was pictured at an event that the military veterans invited her to in a professional capacity which had nothing to do with Niehaus.

Another netizen commented that claims were not rumours and citizens were wise to what the minister was up to, to which Sisulu responded:

"I was born and brought up in the ANC. I will fight within the ANC to return it to its true values. Why would you think I would leave? This article is just poisonous lies intended to join dots that don’t exist."

South Africans respond to Sisulu's scathing tweet about supporting RET Movement

@maggsnaidu asked:

"What are you gonna do about it?"

@oseabi1 questioned:

"I thought independent media were your friends, what happened?"

@Thabelo_Ngwenya claimed:

"Before the conference, you didn't have a problem with these stories."

@LandOfBlackOuts suggested:

"Be a sport and join & take some comrades with. You’ll be doing the country a favour."

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ANCYL blames Minister Pravin Gordhan for loadshedding, wants him to be redeployed, leaving SA fed-up

In another story, Briefly News reported the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) believes that the party should not be blamed for loadshedding but called for Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan to be redeployed.

Members of the ANCYL expressed anger over the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) march to Luthuli House in protest of loadshedding and cadre deployment to the cabinet. Despite condemning the opposition party’s actions, ANCYL members called for President Cyril Ramaphosa to make changes to his Cabinet.

The league’s convener Nonceba Mhlauli spoke to Eyewitness News amid the march and said the DA’s claims were wrong. She said there was no form of ANC cadre deployment in Eskom or its board.

Source: Briefly News