WHAT’S UP ACE’S SLEEVE?
May 21, 2021
4 minutes
BY LESEGO SEOKWANG
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WHEN he became secretary-general of the ANC after a bruising factional battle to elect the party’s leadership in 2017, political analysts predicted that President Cyril Ramaphosa was going to have a hard time making good on many of his campaign promises.
Ace Magashule carried a lot of clout in the ANC and his alliance with former president Jacob Zuma made him a direct opponent to the party’s new president.
For some three years the two men have gone up against each other in battles big and small. But it was only in recent weeks that things really came to a head with Magashule being suspended – and trying to suspend Ramaphosa in turn.
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