“There is no time to plot against the leadership of the organisation but there is also no leadership of the ANC which I am part of which is going to stop me and many others from meeting [former president Jacob] Zuma‚” Magashule declared.
“In fact I can invite President Zuma to come and talk to you as Cosas‚” he added‚ also praising Zuma for delivering free education at tertiary level which “not everybody agreed to”.
This comes after Ramaphosa pparently attacked Magashule earlier in the week.
While speaking at labour federation Cosatu’s national congress last Monday, he called those who “meet in dark corners” and plot to divide the ANC “counter-revolutionaries”.
The Citizen reported last Friday that Magashule raised more than a few eyebrows when he appeared to come out swinging against President Cyril Ramaphosa while speaking in Bloemfontein.
Although he didn’t name Ramaphosa specifically, he was clearly referring to the president in several of his remarks, which may be related to a general sense of unhappiness in the faction of the ANC still sympathetic to former president Jacob Zuma and who feel Ramaphosa is guilty of double standards in his public crusade against corruption.
Magashule is known to be part of this group.