EFF leader Julius Malema has described Cyril Ramaphosa as the worst president in history, saying under his leadership, the South Africa is becoming a hopepless nation and many black people are suffering and becoming poorer and poorer by the day.
Members of Parliament gathered in the Cape Town City Hall on Monday to debate the president’s take on the country’s priorities.
In a scathing attack in response to Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, delivered last week in Cape Town, Malema said the president had done absolutely nothing for black South Africans since his inauguration in 2019.
“Mr President, you must admit that under your leadership, South Africa is in a worse condition than it has ever been,”he said.
“You are currently the worst president to have ever occurred to black people, and we are not surprised that black people are getting poorer under your leadership.”
Malema said Ramaphosa’s presidency had been characterised by indecisive leadership and an alleged push by government to privatise the country’s struggling state-owned enterprises.
“When faced with the problem of white poverty and crisis, the apartheid government used the state to create opportunities and almost completely eradicated joblessness and poverty amongst white people. Today, they say government can’t create jobs. It must be the private sector,” said Malema.
“But we know during apartheid, they established state-owned institutions with the aim and purposes of employing white people,” he said.
“The poverty and joblessness is getting worse under the current administration, with more than 1.7 million people who were previously employed losing jobs and the majority if not all these jobs were in the private sector, which we are told can create jobs. Despite this basic verifiable statistic, the president of the former liberation movement comes here and say that government does not create jobs and the hopeless people of our people must wait for the private sector to create jobs for them. Sending our people to the private sector for jobs is like sending cattle to the slaughter.”
Malema said Ramaphosa has nothing to offer to South Africa and its people.
“The president has gradually passed a motion of no confidence on the minister of small business, but also outsourcing issues of environment raising the necessary capital is also passing another motion of no confidence on the minister of environment.”
“But he has also passed a motion of no confidence on himself, after promising so many millions of jobs, now he says the government cannot provide jobs, jobs must be provided by the private sector and on the manifesto of the ANC which made him the president, he committed jobs.
“So generally they have outsourced the responsibility of governing our people into the private sector,” said Malema.
He said the president failed to provide critical steps to address crime, violence against women and children and the ailing health system.
“Nothing said about the high levels of crime in South Africa, Cash in transit heist, violent crimes and the rape that is taking place in this country, no emphasis on how we are going to deal with that, the clinics have collapsed dismally, there is no public health in South Africa, the president has no commitment about it.”
- * Inside Politics
