NATASHA MARRIAN: ANC shows Ramaphosa its claws
Party’s irritation with its leader’s procrastinating style emerges in briefings by secretary-general Fikile Mbalula
27 April 2023 - 05:00
“We expect the president to run his cabinet, not have his cabinet run itself … he is the CEO … he must lead. We don’t want a government that projects itself to be in crisis. The president is the CEO of the country, it can’t be that [the government] is projected as leaderless. The ANC cannot allow that.”
Is ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula lighting a fire under the proverbial posterior of the seemingly inert President Cyril Ramaphosa? ..
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