Independent Media has launched a secretive plan to help topple President Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of the ANC in December, a document leaked to News24 shows. | kaveels
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South Africa's second-largest media house, Independent Media, has launched a secretive plan to help topple President Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of the ANC in December. News24 can reveal that the plan, titled Operation Hlanza, which means"cleanse" or"clean", was shared with senior editors and political journalists in the group, that owns titles like IOL, The Star, The Mercury and Cape Argus, at a confidential meeting in Durban on Monday.
Authored by The Star's editor, Sifiso Mahlangu, the document is clear in its anti-Ramaphosa stance and preference for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the cooperative governance and traditional affairs minister, to take over as leader of the governing party.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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