South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended his leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) during a meeting with ANC delegates in Johannesburg in which he will seek re-election as party leader ahead of the 2024 elections.
The more than 4,000 members of the ANC will hold from this Friday until next Tuesday an internal congress to decide who will head the ruling party for the elections in 2024 just when the former president of South Africa Jacob Zuma has filed a lawsuit against Rampahosa for unspecified «serious crimes».
Ramaphosa, who hopes to win re-election, emerged unscathed earlier this week from impeachment proceedings, also known as ‘impeachment’, opened against him for his alleged involvement in covering up a robbery that took place on a farm he owned in 2020.
This same Friday, Jacob Zuma’s Foundation has indicated in a statement that Ramaphosa has been sued for «facilitating» crimes «committed among others» by prosecutor Billy Downer over an alleged leak of private information.
Despite this, the current South African president has defended – in the framework of the congress, which has started this Friday with a delay of several hours due to technical problems – his management and has claimed that the economic situation of the country is beginning to show «signs of recovery». Thus, he specified that there are 1.5 million new jobs, according to ‘The Star’.
However, during his speech, Ramaphosa was interrupted at the beginning by several delegates from KwaZulu-Natal who expressed their discontent and shouted «Phala Phala», in reference to the scandal of the robbery in the president’s farm.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
