The president faces his enemies at an ANC national executive committee meeting on Monday
President Cyril Ramaphosa leaves Nasrec, south of Johannesburg, December 4 2022. Picture: SUMAYA HISHAM/REUTERS
He will face off against his political enemies in the ANC — including his main opponent in the party presidential race, former health minister Zweli Mkhize, as well as the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal leadership, who have called for Ramaphosa to resign — at a national executive committee meeting scheduled for Monday morning.
Mbeki has led the charge for Ramaphosa to account to the NEC. Mbeki, who famously pipped Ramaphosa at the post for the deputy presidency under Nelson Mandela, objected publicly to Ramaphosa’s refusal to account to the party up to now. Ramaphosa has always insisted that parliament is the appropriate platform.
He defended Ramaphosa’s decision to continue to contest for ANC president at the party’s elective conference in two weeks, saying that because Ramaphosa got the overwhelming majority of nominations — 2,037 compared with Mkhize’s 916 — to remove him as a candidate would be tantamount to a power grab.
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