I’m not a prophet, and I won’t claim to be one. However, today, my position that Cyril Ramaphosa will de-legitimise undertakings to dismantle apartheid and champion transformation is unfolding.
The appointment of former National Party leader, Roelf Meyer, as South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States exposes the extent of Ramaphosa’s fixation with pandering to white nationalists. It is shameful that such a strategic appointment for the country’s global image is placed with a 78-year-old enforcer of Apartheid.
The strong opposition by patriotic South Africans over this appointment is warranted. For many of us, Meyer represents the trauma of a history marked by ethnic cleansing and disenfranchisement of black people on the basis of race. However, this appointment by Ramaphosa reveals what I have said about his vacuous style of leadership. He serves and protects white imperialist capitalists first, before the citizens of the country.
In the lead up to the 2024 general elections, the Democratic Alliance’s propaganda was the “Doomsday coalition” that included the Economic Freedom Fighters and uMkhonto WeSizwe Party. According to the DA, a coalition of black political parties was reprehensible for a black-majority country. In a manner that was similar to Apartheid’s racist propaganda, black unity was the boogeyman that South Africa had to avoid at all costs.
It came as no surprise when the formation of the 2024 Government of National Dis-Unity sought allyship with the racist Democratic Alliance. The prospect of uniting black political parties to govern never came to light. The calls from the SACP (a partner in the Tripartite Alliance) to unite black political parties were flatly ignored.
Ramaphosa was more than pleased to bring the DA to act as the big brother who steered the direction and outcome of coalition talks. It is now two years later, and the GNU has made no progress to improve the lives and upward mobility of black people. Thanks to the DA’s Chief Puppet, Cyril Ramaphosa.
It appears that South Africa’s first citizen will not waste an opportunity to campaign for the DA. In September 2025, he told ANC Councilors in a televised platform to learn about governance from DA-run municipalities. According to him, the DA’s perpetuation of Apartheid service delivery evidenced in Khayelitsha and the Cape Flats is exemplary.
Of course, he would not dare attribute praise to the leadership of his own party in coalition arrangements that are closer to home. It is absurd that the President was prepared to ignore a very successful coalition government in the country’s Capital City, the City of Tshwane, led by Dr Nasiphi Moya of ActionSA, with his own party, the ANC as the biggest party in such a coalition arrangement.
This coalition was formed in October 2024 after 8 years of mismanagement by the party the President expect ANC Councilors to learn from, including their failure to provide public services to poor communities. Was this an oversight by the President? I don’t think so.
This lecture by President Ramaphosa to ANC Councilors happened in the same week that Helen Zille was going to be announced as the City of Joburg Mayoral Candidate. This was obviously a direct endorsement of the DA by the President of the ANC, hence it is a regular campaign tool used by the DA to claim their governance record.
One cannot speak glowingly of the public benefit from Ramaphosa’s purported track record in business. Whatever acumen he possesses has failed the test of accountability and consequence management. This GNU is riddled with compromised individuals with poor ethical conduct or the desire to serve South Africa.
While serving as the Minister of Justice, Thembi Simelane was under investigation for theft of R700 000.00 for fraudulent billing of Eskom through a consulting firm. Added to that, she faces criminal allegations for looting of pension funds at VBS Bank while she was the Mayor of Polokwane. The President didn’t fire her. Instead, he redeployed her as Minister of Human Settlements.
In March 2026, Parliament found former Higher Education Minister, Nobuhle Nkabane, guilty of ethics breaches and dereliction of duty for appointing 21 SETA Board Chairpersons who have close ties to the ANC. As a reward for loyalty to cadre deployment, Nkabane was redeployed as the ANC’s Chief Whip a few months later.
Social Development Minister, Sisisi Tolashe, is currently caught in a scandal over accepting undeclared luxury cars from Chinese officials, and giving them to her children. It has now emerged that Minister in the Presidency, Maropene Ramokgopa also accepted cars from Chinese officials, which she gave to family members. I am almost certain that the President will not discipline these officials. The status quo will remain.
What more, then, can South Africans expect from a president who refuses to lead? We have a government that sends golf buddies of Donald Trump as part of an official delegation to repair strained relations with the US as a result of misinformation campaign against our country.
We now have the likes of Roelf Meyer being hand-picked to represent the country to navigate misinformation issues that South Africa is not aware of. Again, singing to the tune of the Trump Administration that has clearly aligned itself with Afri-Forum’s disinformation campaign aimed at destabilising the country. South Africa’s sovereignty is compromised because we are led by someone who is indecisive, does not exercise accountable leadership when it is most needed, and more importantly, has allowed our domestic situation to deteriorate, affecting mostly the poor and the most vulnerable in our societies.
None of this is to deny that individuals from the apartheid era can evolve and play constructive roles in a democratic society. South Africa’s history is full of such complexities. However, the bar for public service should be higher when it comes to representing the nation on the global stage—particularly in a relationship as strategically important as that with the United States.
Ultimately, the question facing President Ramaphosa is not simply about “resetting relations” between South Africa and the US. It’s about vision and awareness. This appointment signals a retreat into his comfort and proximity to white nationalists at a time when clear values and decisiveness are urgently needed.
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A British man on safari walks into a bar far out in the reaches of a game reserve in Southern Africa, he stays at the bar for a while shooting the shit with the bartender and drinking like a fish, he offer to buy the barkeep a round and since no one else is within 2km of their small oasis of liquor the barkeep obliges. The englishman goes off to the bathroom to have a good old go at the porcelain, he\’s back and ready for a few more whiskeys. He\’s just sat down when suddenly in the distance he hears a scream. He looks over his shoulder and dismisses it as nothing, he turns to the barkeep and orders a drink, takes a sip and hears the scream again. He looks at the barkeep who just shrugs it off. A minute or two later he and the barman hear it again and go outside to take a look. They see a lone figure running towards them screaming, he spots them and lets out a cry, RUN!!!!! HE\”S COMING!!!!!
The barkeep and the Englishman both look at the terrified bedraggled sight before them, and try to calm him down, but he\’s completely inconsolable. They give him water and finally manage to get a word out of him but he struggles free from their grasp and run away screaming.
A few minutes later the same thing happens with a whole group of men running in and screaming, he\’s coming, he\’s coming the barkeep grabs hold of one of the men as he tries to sprint past the bar and tries to get information out of him, again no response other than terrified gibberish.
The barkeep and his customer are starting to get worried, they start to pack up before another group of horrified natives run up to the bar most of them flee but one tries to hide behind the bar, the barkeep pulls out a shotgun and points it at the terrified man\’s face, finally managing to coax some words out of him. \”He\’s coming for us, Vernon Koekemoer is coming for us, we have to hide!!! We have to get out of here.\” He gets up and tries to run but the barkeep grabs him, feeling trapped in a panic he grabs the barkeeps shotgun and blows his own head off. The Englishman and the barkeep look at each other starting to really panic now.
They look out of the window and off in the distance they see a tornado coming towards the bar, at the bottom of the tornado they see the hugest beast of a man they have ever seen, as he gets closer they spot that he is riding a rhinocerous and using a crocodile as a riding whip, with each smack of the crocodile across the back of the rhino the louder is screams and the faster it runs, the tornado following it getting ever larger.
The 2 look at each other and start to fortify their position, they\’ve got a gun and they\’re waaay to drunk to run, so they start piling bar stool and tables and anything they can get their hands on to make sure they\’ll be safe when he arrives. They\’re not gonna make it, they can see the man slowing down his rhino, by now the crocodile is nothing but reptile paste on the bruised rump of the half dead rhino, the rhino drops down dead from exhaustion and crashes to the ground right outside the bar the tornado loses it\’s last breath in a cloud of dust as the huge man crashes his way through the make shift barricade and charges up towards the bar where the 2 men have taken shelter, he grabs a bottle of the hardest liquor on the shelf and down the entire litre in 1 gulp, he peers over the bar sobbing and sees the 2 defenders cowering down behind the crates of beer, they look up at the mans\’ face and he stares at them with a look of complete and utter hopelessness, he stares at them for a half second and half screams, half sobs, \”Oh my god what are you still doing here!!! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!!!! Vernon Koekemoer is coming!!!!\”