Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Cyril Ramaphosa father called a sellout after posing with white people of NUM outside their motel during the Hlobane inquest-inquiry held in Vryheid, KZN, On February 1984. (Read More Here).
Cyril Ramaphosa dad seen posing for picture with Clive Thompson, Dennis Kuny SC, Bob Von Dolah, Pam Appleton, Herbert Eisner, Gilbert Marcus, Mike Martinson.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has told EFF leader Julius Malema to source the facts about his political background and the role he played in the formation of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which he co-founded in the 1980s.
Ramaphosa went as far as offering to sit with Malema to provide information while calling out Malema for making politics personal, including dragging family members into his attacks on the president during debates.
On Friday Malema implied Ramaphosa was an apartheid collaborator. He said Malema was confused.
“I want us to sit down so when you speak here, you talk about things you understand.
“Two years ago, you stood here and insulted me, and insulted my father and said he was a policeman. I am proud to be a son of a policeman, a very good policeman. I have never insulted your grandmother or even yourself because I respect you.”
Jacob Zuma, the leader of the new official opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, has said apartheid “could not have lasted even one day without black collaborators like Ramaphosa”.
The EFF and the MK party last week said they formalised their alliance. The two parties were left out of Ramaphosa’s broad coalition government, and have characterised it as a regressive pact with the Democratic Alliance.
Ramaphosa was twice detained in the 1970s.
On Monday, he urged Malema to read about the mineworkers’ movement and speak to those who lived through the strikes in the 1980s that brought the sector to a standstill.