Tag: Gossip

The attack by Congress of the People president Mosiuoa Lekota against President Cyril Ramaphosa, whom he called a apartheid-era sellout, is part of an attempt to “desecrate the liberation struggle by portraying its leaders as a bunch of corrupt crooks”, a political expert has said. “The attacks against the ANC, in particular, would increase as the party was losing its status and legitimacy as a leader of society,” analyst Ralph Mathekga said. “Those who make these accusation are not held accountable because SA society is so gullible. We don’t put the burden on the accuser to provide proof of whatever claim he makes against another person,” Mathekga said. I say this because the special branch rewarded you and they sent you home and we headed to Robben Island,” Lekota said. He confirmed that indeed he was detained with Lekota and others but he never sold out. Another was by SACP deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila regarding late PAC leader Robert Sobukwe. He said it was premature to dismiss Lekota and to believe on Wednesday that Ramaphosa indeed was a sellout. But now that Ramaphosa had explained, Lekota needed to make peace with the fact that there was someone who sold out who was not Ramaphosa. In his response in parliament, Ramaphosa also referred to similar sellout accusations levelled against Nelson Mandela after he was moved to a prison house in Victor Verster, away from Robben Island.