Cyril faces his Achilles heel at KZN

President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday toured his leading province, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), in an attempt to stem growing hostility toward him, with a message that detractors he and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Were more adversaries. ] Ramaphosa fought for support in the province where some supporters of former president Jacob Zuma are still to conquer

Dlamini-Zuma has contested and lost the presidential battle in Ramaphosa in a close race to the ANC conference last year. 19659002] But Zuma's dismissal as president became a source of dissatisfaction with Ramaphosa and the ANC's top six, especially in KZN where Vice President David Mabuza is mentioned among those who did not. could not enter the province. Zwelithini's declaration of fighting to defend the land of the Zulu nation was seen as an offshoot of the province's anti-Ramaphosa – not anti-ANC sentiment.

Yesterday, the president The supporters of the ANC present at the KZN were Dlamini-Zuma and his followers. He said that he disappointed the skeptics by appointing him to his cabinet and even closer to it, inside the presidency.

"His office is next to mine," said the president.

He also wanted to put to bed the beliefs the Nasrec lecture was not welcome in the province.

"Today we are here, KZN belongs to the ANC."

Reaching Zuma's supporters, he said that he had spoken to Zuma the day before to sympathize about the death.

A close National Executive member of Zuma said: "Ramaphosa alone can stop this by publicly publishing that the ANC was wrong to treat Zuma."

stated that Ramaphosa had been warned, including privately, that he should avoid taking a posture that was considered anti-Zuma, to create a solid platform for uniting the ANC .

Although Ramaphosa apologized to the king, Zuma's supporters said they appreciated the seriousness of the question Ramap Hosa could have used instead the public broadcaster for a national address in order to settle the affairs with the monarch.

"Obviously, this could have been preceded by an appeal to people who may whisper to the king, like Zuma, that there is a misunderstanding. and the president would like to set the record straight and offer an apology. "

Mabuza told City Press in an interview that" all of those things that there are prohibited areas are trivial matters because they do not talk about what the ANC "

"These differences are not ideological, but personal differences that do not match the ANC's goals," he said.

Mabuza stated that the current generation of ANC leaders had the responsibility to challenge "because we can not fight on personal things and in the process destroy the ANC."

"Let's elevate the ANC because what made us aware of each other is the ANC, so let's raise the ANC.I do not worry about areas of no -right because finally my duty is to persuade comrades to see the situation as a whole, to continue with the objectives of the ANC because it is not yet uhuru. "

as he l & rsquo; Was before last year's conference in Nasrec, "sacrifice everything we have for the ANC to advance."

"Some people have sacrificed their lives and everything for us to be Here I think that on our side, it is a failure to elevate the ANC and repel our personal desires for the ANC to move forward, "said Mabuza

: "The ANC does not concern an individual, but an institution itself, must be protected, and those who participate in it must always try to save the life of this institution."

"We will not, therefore, Be tempted to react to things that do not speak to the life of the ANC. And we will reprimand those comrades who are looking to deviate from things that will save the life of the ANC. We will refuse the things that will destroy the ANC. "

Mabuza said that another view in the ANC was that" unity in this movement is a continuous project. "

" But this time this disunity threatens the life of the ANC and that is why we are all standing, so the degree of disunity must always be at an acceptable level for this living organism to survive. "

Ex-Northwestern Prime Minister Supra Mahumapelo would be among those who challenged the ANC posing on Zuma at a meeting of the National Executive Committee, saying that" we are not going to be able to do that. " it violated the rule of law, equality before the law, and the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.