SA has won the first battle with the dropping of charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan but it has not won the war, ANC Gauteng leader Paul Mashatile told a packed St Albans Cathedral in Tshwane on Wednesday. The ANC Gauteng chairman joined business, labour, civil society, ANC current members and stalwarts, and opposition party leaders for the Save SA People’s Assembly in support of democracy and holding government leaders accountable to the Constitution. The most unlikely individuals sat together in the cathedral: DA leader Mmusi Maimane, ANC stalwarts, Mashatile, SACP second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila, Business Unity SA head Jabu Mabuza, UDM leader Bantu Holomisa and Tourism Minister Derek Hannekom. Section 27’s Mark Heywood said it was arguably the most diverse gathering of South Africans since 1994, reminiscent of the United Democratic Front of the 1980s. The initiative was launched less than a month ago in the wake of the legal battles faced by Gordhan. He ...
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