EFF leader Julius Malema started his response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s second state of the nation (Sona) address at a debate in parliament on Tuesday afternoon with a not-so-subtle dig at Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Dlamini-Zuma was Ramaphosa’s rival in a very close race to become president of the ANC, and in turn president of the country, which played out at the party’s elective conference in Nasrec in late 2017 and saw Ramaphosa emerge victorious.
Malema thanked Ramaphosa’s campaign, the CR17 campaign, for having won, as he said it would have been a “nightmare” if Dlamini-Zuma were elected, adding that this year’s Sona would have been the “most boring”, a reference to the public speaking style of the politician, who currently serves as minister of planning, monitoring and evaluation.
While the EFF leader began his part of the Sona debate by joking about Ramaphosa’s political rival within the ANC, his magnanimity towards the president ended there.