SOUTH Africa’s justice minister fired the latest salvo in a war of words between those who want president Cyril Ramaphosa to remain the ruling party’s head and those who want him ousted in December at a conference where its members will vote on senior leadership positions.
Minister Ronald Lamola, a Ramaphosa ally, unleashed a verbal attack on tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu, who is seen as positioning herself as a leader of an opposing wing of the African National Congress.
He was responding to Sisulu’s recent criticism that the nation’s top judges are “mentally colonized.” Lamola said her comments could not be passed off as debate but as an attack on “the very institution that is to uphold the constitution” and goes against the grain of everything that the ANC wanted to change before the nation’s first democratic elections in 1994.
Sisulu appears to be aligning herself with the wing of
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