PREMIUM!
ANC presidential candidate Cyril Ramaphosa sits beside the outgoing President Jacob Zuma at the ANC's 54th National Elective Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg, on 17 December 2017. The ANC gathers to elect new leadership, including a new party president for which Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are the candidates. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
Cyril Ramaphosaâs chances of winning the election for party president ahead of the ANCâs elective conference in 2017 were slim due to Jacob Zumaâs conniving â until David Mabuza jumped ship. It is now emerging that Ramaphosaâs archrival, Zuma, had the ace: the spies of the State Security Agency (SSA). They were working against Ramaphosa and for Zuma and, by extension, his proxy, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. But the scheme failed because the focus was on Ramaphosa and no one in the Zuma camp, or the spies, imagined that Mabuza, a staunch Zuma-ite, would turn traitor overnight and join the other camp....