Former president Jacob Zuma has called on his successor,
President Cyril Ramaphosa, to come clean over whether any of his companies did
business with the state during his tenure as deputy president.
The call is contained in a scathing 11-page letter Zuma has
written to Ramaphosa in response to the letter the president wrote to ANC
members on Sunday.
Ramaphosa's letter has been seen as a preemptive strike
ahead of a crucial special sitting of the ANC's national executive committee
this weekend.
The president bemoaned the scale of corruption tainting the
party, saying the ANC stands in the dock as accused number one.
Hitting back at Ramaphosa, the former president said it is
“unforgiveable” that he label the organisation as accused number one when it is
individuals in the party who stand accused of wrongdoing. He then turns the
tables on Ramaphosa, saying he needed to come clean on his business interests
and rise to power.
“To point at the entire ANC and its ordinary working class
members is rather low and disappointing, to say the least. Presently
formulated, your letter lends credence to the suspicion that you seek to assist
those, in our ranks, involved in attempts to destroy the ANC in order to hand
it over to be a tool of white monopoly capital interests.
“Maybe, Mr President, this is the opportune time to tell
our members whether, during the so-called 'nine wasted years', any of your companies did business with
government (national or provincial) while you were deputy president of our
movement and the country.
"This would help you, Mr President, to dispel this
unfortunate allegation, sometimes directed at you. It is individuals from the
ANC who must bury their heads in shame, not the ANC, our glorious
movement," wrote Zuma.
He said Ramaphosa’s term has been characterised by
deflecting, especially when it came to cases for which he and those close to
him must answer.
“Mr President, it appears that it has become your hallmark
since our 54th National Conference to divert accusations from yourself rather
than face them and clear your name. Mr President, you currently stand accused
of having received almost R1bn in donations from white monopoly capital just to
win an internal ANC contest," the former president wrote.
Zuma’s spokesperson, Vukile Mathebula, has confirmed the
authenticity of the letter and that it was penned by the former president. Times
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