President Cyril Ramaphosa believes western countries will try to push the ANC out of power during this year’s national and provincial elections in retaliation of South Africa’s International Justice Court case against Israel.
Ramaphosa closed the ruling party’s National Executive Committee Lekgotla on Tuesday vowing to unleash an election machinery that will prove critics wrong as it will achieve a resounding victory.
“We are also conscious of the fact that there will be a systematic fight back campaigns as well. I say this so that we are aware of it. There can be little doubt that these forces will do all in their power to prevent South Africa, firstly from concluding its case on the merits of the matter in the ICJ.
“The fight back may also focus on our domestic politics and our electoral outcome in order to pursue a regime change agenda,” he said.
Ramaphosa said MK and other parties led by former ANC members are working with proponents of apartheid with a common objective to prevent the ANC from transforming society, a job he says the party has done exceptionally well.
“The creation of rebel breakaway groupings in order to erode the support base of the African National Congress. Often these groupings start as small factional groups within the ANC but when the movement they mutate into opposition parties. Some of these parties masquerade as more radical than the ANC but their revolutionary sounding rhetoric cannot hide the reality that they have common cause with the forces opposing transformation that is led by the African National Congress,” said the president to loud applause.
With the ANC having recorded a decline in the past three elections ( 2016 local government elections, 2019 general elections, 2021 local government elections) most political parties are hoping to secure pockets of support big enough to push the liberation movement below 50 percent and exclude it from a new coalition government.
Although South Africa maintains relations with the likes of United States of America and United Kingdom, ongoing fighting and in particular the killing of civilians by Israel daily has put them in opposite ends as those countries are actively supporting the atrocities which have so far claimed over 25 000 Palestinian lives with an estimated 215 people killed just in the past 25 hours.
