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6 days ago
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- IOL News
'Ramaphosa will die in jail if he lives to 80,' says Political Analyst Prince Mashele
Political analyst Prince Mashele says President Ramaphosa's corruption and failure to act show he leads a criminal network and will ultimately die in jail if he lives long enough. Political analyst Prince Mashele says President Cyril Ramaphosa will be remembered as one of the most ineffectual presidents in post-apartheid South Africa. He predicts that if the president lives long enough, 'say he touches 80,' he will die in jail. In an interview on the Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh podcast, Mashele expressed criticism of Ramaphosa, calling him the "criminal in chief" at the head of a 'criminal organisation,' namely the African National Congress (ANC). 'Cyril Ramaphosa will go down in history as one of the most useless presidents we have had after 1994. And I don't mince my words, useless. Zuma will go down in history as the most criminal. But let's park that, we've dealt with Zuma many times. There is a criminal organisation, the criminal in chief, it's president Ramaphosa himself,' Mashele said. Referring to Ramaphosa's handling of the revelations and allegations made by KZN police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in a press briefing on July 6, 2025, Mashele accused the president of deliberately failing to act in the face of damning intelligence. 'You see, there is a moment for a leader of a country to show leadership, to lead his nation. Cyril Ramaphosa missed the moment. He did not act like a leader. He has completely forgotten his responsibilities.' Mashele argued that Ramaphosa, as president, receives daily intelligence briefings and cannot plead ignorance. 'A president is client number one of our intelligence services. They report to the president. There is absolutely nothing that Mkhwanazi knows that Cyril Ramaphosa does not know. So this idea that there must be a commission of enquiry is absolute nonsense. In fact, it's insulting our intelligence as a society. He knows,'' said Mashele. Central to Mashele's argument is what he sees as a mutually compromising relationship between Ramaphosa and Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. 'He [Ramaphosa] cannot act sternly against Mchunu. Why? Because he and Mchunu are partners in crime,' said Mashele. He accused Ramaphosa of being unable to act against Mchunu due to their shared involvement in the CR17 campaign, where, according to Mashele, 'all the dirty money' flowed.
The Citizen
14-07-2025
- Politics
- The Citizen
SA had enough of ANC fat cats
The party long ago moved from being a liberation movement to an organisation in which power was the currency. The life and death of David Mabuza, our former deputy president, gives so much insight into the ways and wiles of the organisation which raised him and which he championed – the ANC. The party long ago moved from being a liberation movement to an organisation in which power was the currency because, through power came access to the levers of government power and, in turn, seemingly unlimited public funds. Mabuza's route to power suffered an early setback when he was fired from his position as Mpumalanga education MEC by the then premier, Mathews Phosa, after the province's matric results were faked in the mid-1990s. He bounced back by building party membership to where Mpumalanga became the ANC's second largest province – with a corresponding number of delegates at national congresses. He used his significant voting bloc to ensure the election and then re-election of Jacob Zuma to the office of party president. ALSO READ: Mchunu to report to ANC on Mkhwanazi's allegations The fall of 'The Cat' He stabbed Zuma in the back in 2017, throwing his province behind the CR17 campaign of Cyril Ramaphosa, enabling him to become president and make promises of a 'new dawn' of clean government. Clearly, Mabuza – known as 'The Cat' because he had seemingly come back from death's door after allegedly being poisoned – had expected he would one day get the highest office himself. But when Ramaphosa stayed on for a second term and the succession path was murky, Mabuza bailed from active politics. His history was accompanied by multiple claims of corruption, gangsterism and manipulation… something, to put it mildly, not unheard of in the ranks of ANC leaders. Mabuza's life was a struggle to get to the top by whatever means and to enrich himself and his comrades along the way. However, more and more people can see this is the way the ANC rolls. And South Africans have had enough. NOW READ: JUST IN: Police Minister Senzo Mchunu placed on leave of absence
