Cyril Ramaphosa speaks after taking the oath of office at his inauguration as South African president at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa May 25, 2019. File photo: REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO
But the same can’t be said about his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, whose survival skills are increasingly looking inadequate in a deeply divided ANC. Faced with a simmering fightback campaign within the party, Ramaphosa’s supporters want to see decisive action against those who oppose his more liberal agenda and who are looking for ways to oust him.
It is doubtful whether Ramaphosa, the former trade union leader, can successfully use skills honed in wage negotiations with mining bosses and later as one of the lead ANC negotiators in the 1990s to end apartheid to come out on top in the factional battle and achieve consensus within the ANC. If evidence presented before the state capture commission is anything to go by, Magashule ought to take a leave of absence from his ANC duties until his name is cleared.
One of the intended beneficiaries of the project told the commission recently how Zwane, then provincial agriculture MEC, elected to take his church choir for a jolly to India, instead of the project’s beneficiaries receiving training in that country. Another witness, Roy Jankielsohn, explained how Magashule and Zwane opted to use “personal insults” instead of accounting for the scandal, saying those implicated were shielded from accountability.
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