SA has to gear up for the possibility of David Mabuza becoming the country’s president in 2024. This is what leader of the African Democratic Change (Adec) and former ANC MP‚ Makhosi Khoza‚ said on Tuesday at a press conference in Braamfontein‚ Johannesburg. She believes Mabuza could become the president because of the aging members of the newly elected ANC National Working Group. "It’s all old people that have been there as ministers since 1994 or have been in some key strategic positions since 1994‚ except probably two or three‚" she said. Khoza said Adec wanted to support Ramaphosa in dealing with corruption‚ but that Ramaphosa was limited by the ANC top six. She also accused the ANC of creating a "foreign concept" — alien to what she had known while still a party member — of "unity without morality". "They are trying to achieve unity at all costs to a point where they would rather sign a pact with the devil. We can even see that unity in the way it is being done‚ it’s not unity ...

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