Former president Jacob Zuma, who is fighting a number of legal battles, has made himself available for the position of chairperson of the ANC. At the weekend he launched a scathing attack on the incumbent president Cyril Ramaphosa, who he said had ...
Zuma told his audience at the weekend that the party’s woes had emerged since its last conference – at which Ramaphosa was elected president.
He took a swipe at Ramaphosa’s election, saying “there were allegations made that Ramaphosa, who was contesting the presidency, used a lot of money to buy his position as president of the ANC”.“When this allegation was made, the figure was put at about R1-billion.
Delegates going into the conference ought to ask difficult questions and hold those who were elected in 2017 accountable on a range of issues, including the failure to implement several resolutions such as the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank and expropriation of land without compensation, Zuma suggested.
On the Phala Phala scandal, in which Ramaphosa is implicated, Zuma said delegates at the conference ought to question why he was not arrested. On coalition governments, which seem to be the order of the day in various metros and regions, Zuma suggested there had been invisible people colluding with members of the party aimed at further weakening the party.Regarding the local government election losses in November 2021, which saw the party lose control of some of the country’s richest metros, including Johannesburg, Zuma said little to nothing had been done to rectify this.
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