Zuma disputes plans to ‘topple’ Ramaphosa
Former president Jacob Zuma has slammed allegations that he has plans to topple Cyril Ramaphosa as the leader of the African National Congress (ANC).
Zuma was speaking in Lamontville, south of Durban on Friday, while campaigning with the party's secretary-general Ace Magashule.
"Why? I've been in power for 10 years. Why should I want to stay and remove people? We have worked with Cyril Ramaphosa for the last 20 years we've been together so what is the problem?"
It emerged last year that Zuma had held a secret meeting in a Durban hotel with Magashule, former North West premier Supra Mahumapelo and several other ANC members in a bid to oust the president, however ANC officials denied the claims.
The former statesman says he will campaign side-by-side with Ramaphosa in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
"I've always been where we need to be together, there's no doubt about it. We get to the same meetings together, it's nothing. It is only in the minds of people who are somewhere there reading things that are not written."