Faizel Patel – 29/04/2021
Political analyst Sanusha Naidoo says it may have been difficult for President Cyril Ramaphosa to distinguish between his role as African National Congress (ANC) president and leader of South Africa.
Ramaphosa in his capacity as ANC president spent a gruelling day in front of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo at the State Capture Commission where he was grilled on several partly issues including cadre deployment.
The ANC president admitted that party deployment, was sometimes taken advantage of to advance factionalism and careerism within ANC ranks.
Naidoo says while Ramaphosa was talking as president of the ANC, at times it is difficult to navigate between the two positions, as the ANC is the ruling party.
“This is where the evidence leader as well as Justice Zondo kept asking for greater detail in order to understand who these processes and mechanisms in the party operated and how they actually were constructed in terms of architecture and implementation and the impact this then had on state capture which is then linked to the state.”
Naidoo says Ramaphosa may have been sincere in his testimony.
I am of the opinion that he tried. He was there as trying to show humility and he mentions this in his statement, he mentions this in the questions that were posed to him and his responses. He kind of comes to the honest conclusion that under their watch there were these fractures that took place and these issues now led to the kind of crisis that you see.”
Naidoo however says Ramaphosa was very careful in the way the he “pickled” off the narrative within the party making sure that the narrative stays within the boundaries of what the ANC stands for as a political party and what the ruling party represents as the kind of anti-apartheid structure and part of the liberation struggle.
Listen to the interview with Sanusha Naidoo
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