Mngxitama calls Lekota a ‘hero’ for Ramaphosa ‘apartheid agent’ allegations

Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama has written a column on his website Black Opinion saying the “nation must thank” Cope leader Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota for alleging that Ramaphosa wrote to the apartheid police in a bid to avoid imprisonment on Robben Island.

The allegation was made in the National Assembly by Lekota during the debate on Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address in parliament on Wednesday.

“You wrote to the Special Branch [police] that we put communist ideas in your head. In doing so, you condemned us to the Special Branch. I say this to you because the Special Branch rewarded you … and they sent you home, and we headed to Robben Island,” Lekota said.

While Lekota was accusing Ramaphosa of having sold out by writing to the apartheid security forces, Mngxitama has taken this one step further by branding Ramaphosa an “apartheid spy” and an “agent of the apartheid regime”.

According to the BLF leader, the president must resign or be recalled, and must “apologise to the nation for collaborating with the enemy during apartheid”.

The column, which directs several other accusations at Ramaphosa, who Mngxitama calls a “stooge of white monopoly capital”, can be read in full here.

READ MORE: Lekota teams up with Steve Hofmeyr in laying charges against Mngxitama

Lekota’s accusations have earned him the support of people who are usually his enemies.

He received a standing ovation from the EFF, whose leader Julius Malema had a heated confrontation with him in June, 2018, at a public land hearing in Limpopo.

Malema also lashed out against Lekota at another land hearing in Mahikeng, North West, in July of the same year, where Lekota was branded a “sellout” for his refusal to support the policy of expropriation without compensation.

BLF have called him a sellout too, for taking the side South African Editors Forum (Sanef) in 2017 when they obtained an interdict against the party, after they allegedly manhandled journalists outside former Business Day editor Peter Bruce’s house.

Lekota doesn’t have much love for BLF either, to the point of laying hate speech charges against Mngxitama, with right-wing Afrikaans singer and activist Steve Hofmeyr by his side.

Despite this, Mngxitama wrote Lekota is the “undisputed hero of the Sona debate”.

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