Mbeki slams Malema claims he is working to unseat Ramaphosa
Former president Thabo Mbeki has dismissed claims by EFF leader Julius Malema that he is working with Arthur Fraser to unseat President Cyril Ramaphosa as “scuttlebutt” that is intended to deepen divisions within the ANC.
Speaking at the press briefing by the opposition parties’ forum in Houghton on Wednesday, where they outlined plans to file a motion of no confidence against the president over the Phala Phala debacle, Malema said the charges against Ramaphosa were more than just internal battles between the so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) forces and other factions in the governing party.
Earlier this year Fraser laid a criminal complaint against the President over his alleged concealment of the February 2020 theft of millions of undeclared US dollars that he had stashed away at his Limpopo farm.
“RET forces of The ANC have never in jubilation celebrated Fraser, including on this allegations. They’ve never owned up to these allegations….and therefore they are asking themselves, whose agenda is Fraser driving? The answer is Fraser is with President Mbeki in the unseating of President Ramaphosa", Malema said.
He’s accused Mbeki of wanting to hold onto power and likened him to late ANC president Zaccheus Mahabane.
“President Mbeki is still disgruntled with unfinishing the term…Mahabane, who led the ANC, left and came back to lead the ANC again. Mbeki is longing for the Mahabane situation.”
In a tweet, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation said Mbeki was “certain that it [the statement] originates from the old apartheid intelligence machinery”.
President Mbeki rejects Mr @Julius_S_Malema’s scuttlebutt with the contempt it deserves. He is certain that it originates from the old Apartheid intelligence machinery. It is intended to deepen divisions within the ANC and to frustrate efforts towards the organisation’s renewal. pic.twitter.com/fyLD1ZqgNh
— Thabo Mbeki Foundation (@TMFoundation_) August 18, 2022
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