Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane says the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC President is too late for the African National Congress and means very little for the people of South Africa who have been left behind in poverty and joblessness.
He says the ruling party is dead and cannot self-correct, no matter who is at the helm.
“This is because the party itself is held together only by the glue of patronage and corruption, and Cyril Ramaphosa is just a new face to the same old ANC.”
Maimane says the future of South Africa lies outside of the ANC.
“It is up to the voters to bring about total change by removing the ANC in 2019 and ushering a new beginning for South Africa.”
According to Maimane, Ramaphosa now leads a deeply divided organisation, which has evolved into a self-serving party that has forgotten the poor and the jobless.
“The truth is, no matter who leads the ANC, cabinet and policy direction is determined by the party, and it has been these ANC policies that have sought to withdraw South Africa from the International Criminal Court (ICC), kept poor people locked out of the economy, captured the mining sector, chased after an unaffordable Nuclear Deal, and increased unemployment with now over 9 million South Africans without a job.”
Maimane stated that Ramaphosa has stood in President Jacob Zuma’s shadow for years, silent in the face of his crimes and the crimes of fellow ANC comrades.
His election means that the corrupt system that is oppressing South Africans will continue.
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