🚨 OPINION: Ramaphosa is a lapdog to the cruel ANC, writes William Saunderson-Meyer. Can he survive until the GeneralElections? Read more on TheCitizenNews 👇
He is a trusted companion and protector. Or an indulged lapdog? He’s a valued, noble steed. Or a broken beast of burden?For he knows theWhen a scapegoat is needed, it’s not the gentle exit of being put to pasture. It’s the swift stroke of a savage blade across an exposed throat.. But Ramaphosa’s presidency may survive until at least next year’s general election. All he has to do is avoid pre-electoral disaster.
A case in point is the hot potato of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Russia President Vladimir Putin.to be chaired and hosted by South Africa. He is also a valued ally and financial patron of the ANC. As is inevitable whenever there is a leadership void, rivals are circling. One of them is Fikile Mbalula, it would seem.Following last month’s Cabinet reshuffle, there’s been, as widely predicted, much squabbling over turf between the three ministers who now each have some form of oversight ofRamaphosa, in contrast, says the ministerial triumvirate “work very well together”. Mbalula is having nothing of that.“The president can’t allow… a fallout… We expect the president to run his Cabinet.
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