Johnathan Paoli
President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the recent launch of former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party and other “splinter groups” and what he said to be the forces behind them intent on disrupting the ruling party.
Ramaphosa was speaking at the January 8 anniversary rally in Mbombela, Mpumalanga on Saturday and said he was aware of social and political forces that were working hard to undermine the gains of freedom made over the last three decades.
“They want to stop the march towards a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous country that truly belongs to all,” Ramaphosa said.
Ramaphosa maintained that the shared goal of these forces were to deprive the ruling party of the ability to use state power to enact change.
“The ANC-led Alliance and the broad progressive movement remains the only reliable force that is capable, and that has a tradition, of uniting and working
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