Mbekis colleagues say they were not informed on arms deal
Some of President Thabo Mbeki\'s Cabinet colleagues in the new ANC national executive committee (NEC) privately confided to the Jacob Zuma party leadership that they were stunned, or not properly briefed, about the arms deal.
A Weekend Argus report says they did not come to Mbeki\'s defence when his authority was indirectly challenged, in his absence, by the party\'s second highest decision-making body which decided to compile a report on the arms deal. This is despite the fact that some of the decisions were taken by the Cabinet in which they, and Zuma, served. Some Cabinet members, who had been retained in the NEC when most of Mbeki allies were rejected at the national conference in Polokwane, implied that Mbeki had not taken them into their confidence, or they were not part of the controversial decisions which triggered criminal investigations. Full Weekend Argus report