ANC midgets have Ramaphosa strapped down and politically immobile despite noble intent | IOL News

President Cyril Ramaphosa is a modern Gulliver. Despite substantial powers, he has been rendered immobile by the combined actions of political midgets.

As former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas said at this week’s launch of his book After Dawn, Ramaphosa knows what must done and the present “dilly-dallying” is not sustainable, but the extent of a well-funded fightback has been underestimated. We now know that corporate donors and well-heeled individuals poured a massive amount of money into Ramaphosa’s campaign to win the party leadership - the president’s men say R200m, the public protector claims R400m. But both sides were pouring money into that battle.

For Ramaphosa to break the bonds that at present constrain him, he first has to neutralise Busisiwe Mkhwebane, using the constitutional mechanisms in place that allow for removal of the public protector. These “incompetent” judges had to be removed, demanded Malema, otherwise “they must know we will be left with no options to take up arms”.

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