Those leading the charge against Ramaphosa over his game farm heist play into his hands by virtue of who they are.
Those leading the charge against Ramaphosa over the game farm heist play into his hands by virtue of their own skulduggeryPolitics is often the art of marrying the hypocritical with the cynical; never more so than now, as Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma’s offspring seize on the Phala Phala heist to demand President Cyril Ramaphosa’s head.
Malema’s EFF MPs, citing the allegations against him, tried to disrupt Ramaphosa’s speech on the presidency budget last week and were booted out of parliament for their trouble.Yet it is also true that t Mkhwebane certainly had it coming. She is facing impeachment in parliament after years of stumbling from one mess to another: the Absa-Bankorp lifeboat imbroglio, her pursuit of Pravin Gordhan, and other investigations too numerous to mention that have been dismissed by the courts and condemned as everything from “irrational” to “bad faith conduct”.
So what should have been dealt with as a straightforward common crime now becomes a political issue, and Ramaphosa is exploiting this to try to dodge legitimate questions — such as why the burglary was not formally reported to police when it happened two years ago, and whether everything about the dollars stashed in his sofa was kosher. Many South Africans are arriving at the conclusion that Ramaphosa, despite his lofty anticorruption pronouncements, considers himself to be above the law.
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