NATIONAL NEWS - Speaking outside the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday evening following his challenge of the apartheid-era Riotous Assemblies Act, EFF leader Julius Malema weighed in on the supposed plot being cooked up against President Cyril Ramaphosa.
He started off by dismissing the idea that former president Jacob Zuma and his allies were engaged in a plot to oust Ramaphosa, before then discussing the apparent fact that Ramaphosa’s enemies were in fact working “day and night” to get rid of him.
In one breath, he accused Ramaphosa of being paranoid, while in the next warned that Ramaphosa would not last because of the small margin he’d won the ANC presidency by.
He was referring to a Sunday Times report that suggested earlier this month that a meeting at a Durban hotel between ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, Zuma, former North West premier Supra Mahumapelo and the ANC Women’s League secretary-general Meokgo Motuba was evidence of “plotting” against Ramaphosa as part of a fightback effort by Zuma and his supporters in the ANC.
Malema said: “There is no plot against Ramaphosa. That’s what all the ANC presidents do. They claim there is a plot so that they can misuse state resources. I mean, who can threaten Ramaphosa? Ramaphosa is even so scared of Zuma that he is even willing to pay for his legal costs.”
He questioned the report as evidence of “white-owned media” being in cahoots with Ramaphosa and that the report did not make sense.
“We cannot allow the white-owned media to tell us who can meet who. Why would they meet at a hotel to discuss a plot when Zuma has a bunker in Nkandla?”
He alleged that the report was smoke and mirrors that he said he could relate to personally. He went on to allege that the president could attempt to use such reports to “abuse” state resources, such as state intelligence, to fight his enemies.
