{"id":843361,"date":"2025-11-16T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=843361"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:12:50","slug":"plan-to-get-rid-of-cyril-ramaphosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/843361\/plan-to-get-rid-of-cyril-ramaphosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to get rid of Cyril Ramaphosa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are calls within the ANC to oust Cyril Ramaphosa, disband the NEC, and replace the leadership with a national task team led by former president Thabo Mbeki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday World reported<\/a> that this plan was contained in a letter circulated among senior ANC members in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANC Veterans League president Snuki Zikalala described the situation as a covert and divisive attempt to remove Ramaphosa from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zikalala told Sunday World that the ANC Veterans League rejects any attempts to destabilise the government and that Ramaphosa should finish his term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe, as the league, are behind the president, and, as far as we are concerned, he must finish his term,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also speculation that Ramaphosa was preparing to step down after South Africa hands over the G20 presidency to the United States next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zikalala stated that the South African President had not expressed any such intention and that the rumours originated from unnamed sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s advisor and special envoy, Bejani Chauke, has also dismissed rumours<\/a> that the president is planning to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This rumour is untrue and aims to cast aspersions on the successful build-up of the first-ever G20 Summit in Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chauke added that Ramaphosa’s international track record, undergirded by a national mandate to govern, is unquestionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe President\u2019s mission has been to lead the fight for clean government and to reverse corruption and malfeasance, inspiring hope and resolve across the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has been seen in his commitment to see justice by elevating the importance of independent courts and judicial commissions of enquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Ramaphosa has consistently and resolutely expressed his commitment to national unity, fostering a sense of cohesion and solidarity among South Africans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe South African constitutional framework permits a president to serve a maximum of two terms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Ramaphosa completed his first term and was re-elected by parliament, a democratic institution representing the people\u2019s will, to serve a second term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frans Cronje’s view on the issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr Frans Cronje<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Renowned political and economic expert Dr Frans Cronje said<\/a> their assumption remained that Ramaphosa would remain President until 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur assumption is that President Cyril Ramaphosa will exit by the end of 2027 or the start of 2028 after the ANC has had its elective conference,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that despite media reports about Ramaphosa\u2019s supposed plans to resign, there is nothing to suggest that this is the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is also nothing that we could learn to suggest that Ramaphosa is planning to resign,\u201d Cronje said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Ramaphosa is going to resign soon. I think he will stick around for another two years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cronje added that if Ramaphosa were to resign, it would be a strange decision for the ANC to make, as it is unclear who would succeed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that Ramaphosa is viewed favorably by around half of South Africa\u2019s voters, which is relatively strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more telling is that 84% of ANC voters view the President favourably or very favourably, showing his popularity among the party\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of Ramaphosa\u2019s rivals and potential ANC Presidents come close to the ratings he is achieving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor Ramaphosa to achieve an 84% favorability rating among ANC voters is astonishing. It would be mad for them to let him go now,\u201d Cronje said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that if Ramaphosa resigns, it would have negative financial implications, create uncertainty, and harm the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will hurt the ANC at the 2026 municipal elections in South Africa, which the party would like to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are calls within the ANC to oust Cyril Ramaphosa, disband the NEC, and replace the leadership with a national task team led by former president Thabo Mbeki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":839809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1875,24130,1293,21863,23691,6231],"class_list":["post-843361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-anc","tag-bejani-chauke","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-frans-cronje","tag-snuki-zikalala","tag-thabo-mbeki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843366,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843361\/revisions\/843366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}