MASHUPYE HERBERT MASERUMULE
IF the outcomes of the most recent meeting of the national executive committee (NEC) of South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), are anything to go by, the party has reached a tipping point.
As he was giving an update of the NEC meeting, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa’s demeanour appeared to be that of a leader in charge, sending his secretary-general Ace Magashule packing, and giving him the executive committee’s ultimatum to apologise for his vindictive behaviour.
The NEC is the ANC’s highest governing structure in between its five-yearly national conferences.
Magashule, who has been suspended by the party because he has been charged with fraud and corruption, defiantly ignored his suspension and retaliated by in turn “suspending” Ramaphosa.
In other words, he dared the president, but at his own peril. Ramaphosa is a formidable adversary.
Based on his experience of their encounters during the
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