NTEBO MOKOBO
RELATIONS between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor Jacob Zuma are inevitably rocky. These relations were soured mainly by the removal of Zuma as president.
Pressure on him to appear before the State Capture Commission has also worsened the already frosty relations. Remarks by Ramaphosa on the nine wasted years under Zuma also compounded the worsening relations.
But Zuma could not help the situation alleging that money was used to secure the African National Congress (ANC) presidency for Ramaphosa.
He also alleged that some judges have assisted him to hide from society what could possibly be bribes obtained to help him win an internal ANC election.
There was a time Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa were comrades in arms and in 2012 they became the ANC’s first and second-in-command respectively.
The two also went to the Union Buildings together as the country’s president and deputy president. But things only
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