President says there are no plans of any sort to remove his deputy Paul Mashatile
Deputy President Paul Mashatile. Picture: LEON SADIKI/BLOOMBERG
The reports suggested Mashatile believes those behind the plot to remove him want him gone from the Union Buildings as early as next month. “I had a discussion with the deputy president and I“There is just no thought, no plan, no inkling whatsoever that something like that could be in the works,” said Ramaphosa.
“I would have to have my own head examined to have had a deputy president appointed and thereafter [removed], because I’m the only one who could remove him unless the party decides so and then does that. So there is no truth or substance at all as far as I’m concerned,” he said. These are said to include stories that have recently come out concerning Mashatile’s alleged extramarital affairs, as well as allegations of questionable relationships with business people.
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