SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s tenuous hold on the ruling African National Congress has been exposed by a public fight within his cabinet over the role of the judiciary.
Ten days after Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu penned the first of a series of opinion pieces criticising the nation’s top judges and attacking the constitution, Ramaphosa on Monday finally weighed into the fray with a tepid response.
“We need to protect our constitution, our democratic state and the electoral process from anyone who wants to weaken our democracy and deny the South African people of their hard-won freedom,” Ramaphosa said in his weekly letter to South Africans, without identifying Sisulu.
The actions of Sisulu, who has been a member of parliament since the end of apartheid and held several ministerial portfolios, are seen as a direct challenge to Ramaphosa, who has staked his presidency on rooting out the corruption that decimated
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