Magashule told journalists at the IEC results operations centre that South Africans voted for the ANC, not an individual, referring to Ramaphosa.
African National Congress secretary general Ace Magashule should know that the election of president Cyril Ramaphosa as party president in 2017 was a “game changer”, ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula said on Friday.
He was reacting to Magashule’s comments in which he rubbished claims that the ANC would have performed significantly worse in the election should Ramaphosa not have been voted president. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was Ramaphosa’s rival for the top ANC position two years ago. Magashule told journalists at the IEC results operations centre that South Africans voted for the ANC, not an individual, referring to the president.
A visibly agitated Mbalula said Ramaphosa “carried the ANC” through the highly contested sixth democratic polls. “Ramaphosa carried the ANC in this campaign… I know what I am talking about… I know what the research and the narrative was saying. The ANC national executive committee knows that story, [Magashule] also knows that…he must not be over allergic about Ramaphosa…. Ramaphosa is his president… he’s the president of the ANC… the secretary general must understand that better.”
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