Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema told President Cyril Ramaphosa that he could not see what former President Nelson Mandela once saw in him.
Malema was speaking during a debate on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the National Assembly on Tuesday.
“We were abused here by an election campaign that saw people like Oprah Winfrey rented and brought here to tell us about how (former president) Nelson Mandela wanted you to be president. There is no sign of what he saw in you [that we can see],” said Malema.
Malema was referencing an event last year where Winfrey was addressing the Global Citizen Festival in December and introduced Ramaphosa as Mandela’s preferred successor.
Malema also hit out at Ramaphosa over the content of his State of the Nation Address, saying it was incompatible with the ANC’s election manifesto as well as its erstwhile national conference resolutions.
Ramaphosa’s address, last week Thursday, highlighted seven principles and five goals for the next decade to improve South Africa’s socio-economic prospects.
Malema laid into Ramaphosa personally and read the president for filth as a man who had relentless presidential ambitions for years but had no plan on how to improve the state of South Africa’s beleaguered economy.