HISTORY CLEARLY SHOWS THIS CONTRIVED CRISIS WILL NOT BRING DOWN THE REPUBLIC
Response to What next for Ramaphosa?
We do not have a Republic of Ramaphosa, as the article seems to suggest. In Thabo Mbeki we had one of the best presidents the country has ever had recalled by the people who were in charge. He resigned and the heavens never fell down.
The same happened when the ANC recalled a constitutional delinquent called Jacob Zuma. We still had a country, albeit one in a very bad shape.
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Anglican Church do not see the problems you are seeing; they see a very irresponsible President. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has called for the establishment of a government of national unity. The SACC has called for
the process of impeachment to unfold. If the ANC elects corrupt people to its leadership, it is its straitjacket and the electorate has to respond to these criminals.
The skokiaan polls showing that Cyril Ramaphosa is more popular than the ANC have only shown that, in the past two elections, he was less popular than Zuma in terms of results. In fact, polls show that with him at the helm the ANC will get less than 50% in 2024.
To suggest that David Mabuza, whom the ANC elected as its deputy, is not fit for purpose is actually to say that the party that elected him is not fit for purpose.
There is no crisis but a contrived one to keep an incompetent President in office. What you see in the markets is temporary, as happened when Mbeki was recalled and a delinquent in Kgalema Motlanthe installed. He disbanded the Scorpions.