When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… recalled the unpleasant instance three years earlier, in 2002, when the NEC had occasion to engage one of its members, … of fabrications concerning the workings of the NEC. In a 2002 interview conducted by the Irish historian, Dr Helena … them, in Cronin’s presence, at its meeting held in August 2002. The NEC Bulletin issued after this meeting said: “The …