OPINIONISTA: Cometh the hour, cometh Ramaphosa By Faiez Jacobs
I am a product of the African National Congress”, the globally renowned, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and once world’s most famous political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, declared at the last sitting of the first democratic Parliament on 26 March 1999.
Ironically there has also been an attempt by some to separate President Cyril Ramaphosa from the ANC. These have argued that there is President Ramaphosa and then there is the ANC. They have sought to portray an ANC separate from its president and insisted that the ANC was intolerable of the leadership and vision of our president. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Recognising the need for deep renewal, which demands a rejection of corruption and all forms of State Capture, the ANC of which the Western Cape was part of, chose Ramaphosa, as President at Nasrec in 2017, to lead these fights and also ensure a transition into a corrupt free society.
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