Ramaphosa sex scandal: The little story that couldn’t
South Africans, it seems, are not particularly interested in the private lives of their leaders. They proved this when they elected President Jacob Zuma after he had sex with ... let’s just say a bunch of folk
It was the story that had everything. A presidential contender. A sex tape. A betrayed woman. A Sunday newspaper headline. Except, it didn’t. Revelations of Cyril Ramaphosa’s "affairs" appear to have been less interesting than the initial billing promised. Yes, Ramaphosa is a presidential contender. But it turns out he wasn’t on the sex tape. And it seems he had already spoken with his wife about the affair and they had moved on. And the Sunday newspaper that broke the story? Well, it has fallen on hard times of late and now seems to be less of a newspaper than another peddler of stories of the Bell Pottinger ilk.
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